Abstract:
At the present day, the non -stop regular uses of coastal and ocean areas leads to a need, as to consider the range of both usages and users entirely.
Not only their economic contribution to communities as habitats and ecosystems but also more wide-ranging access must be taken in the course of decision making and planning processes. This approach is known as Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, of CMSP.
Coastal and marine spatial planning is a scientific and collaborative process which is used to manage sustainable resources, activities, and interests among various coastal and ocean sectors and users.
The transformation and use of coastal and marine systems caused a hunger for unitary movement as management and planning; coastal and marine spatial planning arose as one of these efforts.
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning is merely a process that helps planners to make better decisions about the usage of oceans. Coastal and marine spatial planning prepares decision making powers with maps and accurate information about the environmental characteristics, geography, and present utilization of the sea.
Experts define coastal and marine spatial planning as a comprehensive, integrated, ecosystem-based planning process deliberately deviating from the single-sector, single-purpose approach that characterizes ocean and coastal management historically. In recent years, an ascending number of scientists, policy analysts and maritime science and policy experts prepare this planning approach as a way to protect marine resources, solve conflicts of use, improve inter-agency coordination and collaboration, and prepare for future ocean uses.