TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Demonstrating the Concept of Multi-Use Too Soon for the North Sea?
T2 - Barriers and Opportunities from a Stakeholder Perspective
AU - Onyango, Vincent
AU - Papaioannou, Eva
AU - Schupp, Maximilian F.
AU - Zaucha, Jacek
AU - Przedzymirska, Joanna
AU - Lukic, Ivana
AU - Varona, Mario Caña
AU - Schultz-Zehden, Angela
AU - Giannelos, Ioannis
AU - Läkamp, Rianne
AU - van de Velde, Ilse
N1 - Funding - This work was supported by the EU Horizon 2020 – the Framework Program for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) under Grant H2020-BG-2016-2017 (Blue Growth – Demonstrating an Ocean of Opportunities).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Multi-use (MU) has been promoted as a viable approach to the effective planning and mitigation of user-conflicts in the marine realm. Despite several research and pilot projects demonstrating the approach’s feasibility and benefits, commercially viable MU applications remain patchy and few. Further, MU is neither systematically applied nor purposively planned for even in the imminent event of incompatible and conflicting use of marine space. This paper seeks to identify barriers and opportunities for mainstreaming MU based on desktop study and iterative stakeholder consultation. The findings reveal that the MU concept was frequently framed as ‘co-location’ or ‘co-existence’ and aimed toward mitigating conflict among users. Practice was ahead of theory with little attention to synergistic and efficiency aspects. Barriers for MU application include shortcomings in legislation, sectoral thinking, and burdensome administrative procedures. The main opportunity lies in creating a conducive policy environment where MU risks and transaction costs become low and competitive, respectively. Solutions at the sea basin and national level, upon which further MU application can be anchored, are proposed.
AB - Multi-use (MU) has been promoted as a viable approach to the effective planning and mitigation of user-conflicts in the marine realm. Despite several research and pilot projects demonstrating the approach’s feasibility and benefits, commercially viable MU applications remain patchy and few. Further, MU is neither systematically applied nor purposively planned for even in the imminent event of incompatible and conflicting use of marine space. This paper seeks to identify barriers and opportunities for mainstreaming MU based on desktop study and iterative stakeholder consultation. The findings reveal that the MU concept was frequently framed as ‘co-location’ or ‘co-existence’ and aimed toward mitigating conflict among users. Practice was ahead of theory with little attention to synergistic and efficiency aspects. Barriers for MU application include shortcomings in legislation, sectoral thinking, and burdensome administrative procedures. The main opportunity lies in creating a conducive policy environment where MU risks and transaction costs become low and competitive, respectively. Solutions at the sea basin and national level, upon which further MU application can be anchored, are proposed.
KW - DABI (Drivers Added values Barriers Impacts) framework
KW - lessons
KW - multi-use
KW - North Sea
KW - stakeholder engagement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079698811&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08920753.2020.1728206
DO - 10.1080/08920753.2020.1728206
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079698811
SN - 0892-0753
VL - 48
SP - 77
EP - 95
JO - Coastal Management
JF - Coastal Management
IS - 2
ER -