Marine Spatial Planning Publications
Coming to the table: Early stakeholder engagement in marine spatial planning
April 2012
From 2009 to 2011, marine spatial planning (MSP) rapidly gained visibility in the United States as a promising ocean management tool. During that same time period, the authors engaged a variety of U.S ocean stakeholders in a series of dialogs with several goals: to share information about what MSP is or could be, to hear stakeholder views and concerns about MSP, and to foster better understanding between those who depend on ocean resources for their livelihood and ocean conservation advocates. The stakeholder meetings were supplemented with several rounds of in-depth interviews and a survey. Despite some predictable areas of conflict, project participants agreed on a number of issues related to stakeholder engagement in MSP: all felt strongly that government planners need to engage outsiders earlier, more often, more meaningfully, and through an open and transparent process. Equally important, the project affirmed the value of bringing unlike parties together at the earliest opportunity to learn, talk, and listen to others with whom they rarely engage.
Environmental Management of Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Ecosystems: Justification of and Considerations for a Spatially-Based Approach
June 2011
This report is the result of a June 2010 workshop sponsored by the International Seabed Authority in Dinard, France. Linwood Pendleton, director of ocean and coastal policy at the Nicholas Institute, along with deep sea biologists and policy makers attended and contributed to this report. It presents the first design principles for the comprehensive management of chemosynthetic environments in the global ocean and serves to introduce chemosynthetic ecosystems into the discourse of systematic marine spatial planning.
Stakeholder Participation in Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
January 2011 - by Morgan Gopnik, Clare Fieseler, and Larry Crowder
Beginning in July 2009, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, in collaboration with Duke’s Center for Marine Conservation and the Meridian Institute, convened a series of meetings to discuss coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) with a variety of ocean stakeholders. Four of the meetings included only representatives from ocean industries, two included only environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), and the final two meetings included stakeholders from all constituencies. The purpose of the meetings was to share perspectives, discover areas of agreement, and identify potential conflicts; no attempt was made to reach consensus among the participants. To supplement discussions at the meetings, the Nicholas Institute also conducted in-depth phone interviews and administered a web-based survey for the meetings’ participants.
Rethinking the Funding and Management of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway: Policy Lab 1 Executive Summary
November 2010 - by Linwood Pendleton
On July 28 and 29, 2010, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University hosted a policy lab in Washington, D.C., to bring together professionals from different sectors and representatives of different states in the South Atlantic region to discuss the history of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) and its uses, identify management challenges, and develop innovative solutions to these challenges. Participants were encouraged to think of creative new policy alternatives to effectively manage and fund the AIWW. This document highlights the most important topics of discussion.
Principles for Marine Spatial Planning: Outcomes of the Ocean Industries MSP Policy Labs
November 2009 - by Laura Cantral, Larry Crowder, Morgan Gopnik, Linwood Pendleton
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning in North Carolina
November 2009 - by Linwood Pendleton and Mike Orbach
Legal Bedrock for Rebuilding America's Ocean Ecosystems
April 2009 - by Mary Turnipseed, Larry B. Crowder, Raphael D. Sagarin and Stephen E. Roady
Pathway to Ocean Ecosystem-Based Management: Design Principles for Regional Ocean Governance in the United States
October 2005 - by Ingrid Nugent and Tim Profeta
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