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The missing layer: geo-technologies, communities, and implications for marine spatial planning
St. Martin, K.; Hall-Arber, M. (2008). The missing layer: geo-technologies, communities, and implications for marine spatial planning. Mar. Policy 32(5): 779-786. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2008.03.015
In: Marine Policy. Elsevier: UK. ISSN 0308-597X; e-ISSN 1872-9460
Also appears in:
Douvere, F.; Ehler, C. (Ed.) (2008). The role of marine spatial planning in implementing ecosystem-based, sea use management. Marine Policy, 32(Spec. Issue 5). Elsevier: London. 759-843 pp., more
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Keywords
    Decision making
    Environments > Aquatic environment > Marine environment
    Information systems > GIS
    Management > Ecosystem management > Coastal zone management
    Mapping
    Physics > Biophysics
    Resource management
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    marine spatial planning; local ecological knowledge; social mapping
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  • St. Martin, K.
  • Hall-Arber, M.
Abstract
    The assessment and management of marine resources is an increasingly spatial affair dependent upon emerging geo-technologies, such as geographic information systems, and the subsequent production of diverse layers of spatial information. These rapid developments are, however, focused on biophysical processes and data collection initiatives; the social landscape of the marine environment is undocumented and remains a "missing layer" in decision-making. As a result, the resource areas upon which stakeholders and communities are dependent are neither mapped nor integrated into planning processes. We report on a participatory method to map the presence of fishing communities at-sea. The lessons learned concerning the spatial representation of communities informs not only fisheries, but other sectors struggling to incorporate similarly the human dimensions of the marine environment in assessment and planning.
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