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Tese de doutoramento, Ciências do Mar, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2016 ; Planning of marine areas, from coastal to open-ocean regions, has been developed worldwide as a way to ensure sustainability and reduce conflict in ocean's use. Marine spatial planning (MSP) deals with the distribution of human uses in the ocean, both spatially and temporally, striving to minimize conflicts and foster compatibilities among such uses, and between uses and the environment. An important aspect of MSP is that it takes the ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach as its overarching principle, therefore putting an emphasis in allowing for socioeconomic development without compromising the use of resources by future generations. Being one of the world's largest maritime nations, Portugal has an important role in the implementation of the European Union (EU) maritime policies. The perceived need to develop sustainable ocean planning and management processes in Portugal has increased in the last decade. Accordingly, during this period two national ocean strategies were developed, the transposition and implementation of the EU Marine Strategy was pursued, and the first Portuguese MSP initiative was started. The Portuguese MSP process can be considered to have two main phases. The first one is the the Plano de Ordenamento do Espaço Marítimo (POEM) phase, which extended over a period of four years (2008-2012). During most of that period the POEM was intended to be the first Portuguese "marine spatial plan", but in the end it was instead published as a "study", thus having no legal or regulatory formal aspect. The second phase is the MSP legislation phase, which started immediately after the release of the POEM with the development of a MSP framework law. This law was promulgated in early 2014 (Law No. 17/2014), and one year later a set of MSP complementary regulations that aimed both to implement the law and to transpose the EU MSP Directive were approved as well (Decree-Law No. 38/2015). Given that the present and ...

This article is not intended to be a thorough empirical analysis of the progress of MSP. Rather, it aims to provide an overview of how MSP is evolving within diverse national and regional contexts and illustrate the major trends that are emerging globally. By analyzing the legislative arrangements, objectives, implementation and evaluation processes, and the initial impact of MSP across 12 regional areas, this article presents an overview of how MSP is developing. The next section provides an overview of MSP's evolution over the last two decades. This is followed by a series of national reviews of MSP implementation in 12 regional ocean areas. These reviews showcase how MSP has quickly spread across the globe, as well as revealing the major factors that are supporting and inhibiting its fulfilment as an integrative means of marine management. This is followed by a discussion section that evaluates some of the key findings extracted from the reviews, reflecting upon the issues that are shaping the conceptualization and operationalization of MSP initiatives in different regional contexts, before questioning what this means for future MSP practice and research. Factors revealed as being challenges common to MSP initiatives include the rationale for MSP implementation, the need for legislative backing, the material consequences of MSP and the need for evaluative feedback loops, the use and production of knowledge, and a lack of innovation. This article concludes by briefly outlining a range of recommendations on how MSP can evolve in more sustainable and inclusive manners over the next decade and as it spreads to other nations and regions.

The dataset presented in this article contains information about marine Area-Based Management Tools (ABMTs) used to assess their contribution to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Following the scope of the analysis, ABMTs were identified by scrutinizing international and regional legal sources related to ocean management in the fields of marine conservation, fisheries, deep sea bed mining, underwater natural and cultural heritage, environmental conservation, and marine spatial planning. Legal sources were screened to depict the following characteristics of individual ABMTs: i) management objectives; ii) authorities responsible for delivering such objectives; iii) the system of management and planning entailed in the ABMT including the zoning type; and iv) the specific spatial scope and domain each ABMT refer to in vertical depth and horizontal domain. Data were generated through an internal expert elicitation. Experts, initially trained in the data analysis and related protocol, contributed to the data production because of their specific knowledge and experience in ocean management. This dataset represents a unique source of information for advancing research about monitoring and assessment of the achievement of sustainable development goals that encompasses different types of ABMTs. ; This research was conducted in the framework of COST action on "Ocean Governance for Sustainability - challenges, options and the role of science", CA15217, within the Working Group 2 "Area Based Management" activities. We would like to thank COST for the funding that made the cooperation amongst the authors, and thus this article, possible. EG partially acknowledges also funding from PORTODIMARE "geoPORtal of TOols & Data for sustaInable Management of coAstal and maRine Environment" (2018–2020), Adriatic-Ionian Programme INTERREG V–B Transnational 2014–2020, grant no. 205, and funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement ...