Marine Spatial Planning: A holistic approach to manage marine environment
Sanskar Soni
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
Key Highlights
- MSP involves the coordination of activities and the balancing of competing uses of the ocean in order to achieve sustainable development.
- The EU has been actively promoting marine spatial planning to achieve good environmental status in its marine waters.
- There are several technical approaches, such as dredging, sediment capping, and sediment relocation, that can be used to manage sediment in the marine environment.
- Underwater Radiated Noise URN management is a field of study and management that deals with the impacts of human-generated noise on marine life.
- Technology can be used to map and monitor water quality, identify areas of concern, and evaluate the effectiveness of management measures.
Adoption of Marine Spatial Planning to manage marine resources
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a process of analyzing and allocating the human uses of the ocean, including coastal areas and the Great Lakes. It is a holistic approach to managing the marine environment, considering the ecological, economic, social, and cultural values of marine areas. MSP involves the coordination of activities and the balancing of competing uses of the ocean in order to achieve sustainable development. The concept of MSP originated in the 1960s and 1970s and has been further developed with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982.
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Sanskar Soni
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
Sanskar works as a Research Fellow at MRC and has a keen interest to discover more about the maritime domain. He is an enthusiastic chemical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, who has a strong passion for machine learning. He has had a proven track record of working in the field of website development and has also gained significant experience in research in machine learning and computational biology. He has been selected for an internship at Piramal Pharma Limited in 2023. Besides, Sanskar is an active member of the Student Affairs Council at IIT Delhi.