Although marine spatial planning (MSP) is increasingly being applied worldwide, it appears
to be based on an ambiguity that has arisen from its dichotomous role of ensuring both …

Abstract The Blue Economy is a recent economic development paradigm, being promoted
worldwide as a way to deliver sustainable ocean development in the context of the …

Abstract Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) offers the possibility of democratising management
of the seas. MSP is, however, increasingly implemented as a form of post-political planning …

Marine/maritime spatial planning (MSP) is about managing the distribution of human
activities in space and time to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives and …

Over the course of the past decade, the political economy of global ocean space has
entered into a process of significant transformation. In this context, multilateral, corporate …

Responding to calls for a more theoretically driven, post-positivist and radical marine spatial
planning research that approaches the policy as a political project, this paper develops a …

As the technical and political challenges of land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
approaches become more apparent, the oceans may be the new “blue” frontier for carbon …

Frontier describes a recently “discovered” or newly reconceived space of sociocultural,
environmental and/or economic potential; it is often employed as a metaphor by those …

Over the past two decades, increasing industrialisation of the marine environment has
intensified competition for marine space. This competition has largely been driven by the …

This paper offers a conceptual contribution to understanding ocean governance and the
management of spaces for the protection of marine biodiversity, organization of extractive …