1.3 Blue Growth and Maritime Spatial Planning
The European Commission has initiated a programme called Blue Growth, which is
the EU’s long-term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors. Marine space will become a delicate issue to future Blue Growth plans
in European seas, challenging creative and innovative contributions which at the
same time can ensure environmental sustainability. One such creative and innovative
possibility is multi-use, i.e. making use of marine space more efficiently and
effectively when two or more sectors join activities in same area (European Commission 2017a). Whereas this is not fully new, as we used to combine, for instance,
shipping and fishing, the approach is now expanded to cover typical Blue Growth
sectors, such as wind and aquaculture combinations. While the multi-use arrangement increasingly is accepted as a valuable contribution to Blue Growth, it is not
clear how to practically implement it in European seas.
1.3.1 The THAL-CHOR Project
THAL-CHOR (2015) (Cross-border cooperation for Maritime Spatial Planning
Development) Interreg project seeks the development of a methodology for
Fig. 1.5 TROPOS work packages breakdown. (Source: TROPOS 2012)
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The European Commission has initiated a programme called Blue Growth, which is
the EU’s long-term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors. Marine space will become a delicate issue to future Blue Growth plans
in European seas, challenging creative and innovative contributions which at the
same time can ensure environmental sustainability. One such creative and innovative
possibility is multi-use, i.e. making use of marine space more efficiently and
effectively when two or more sectors join activities in same area (European Commission 2017a). Whereas this is not fully new, as we used to combine, for instance,
shipping and fishing, the approach is now expanded to cover typical Blue Growth
sectors, such as wind and aquaculture combinations. While the multi-use arrangement increasingly is accepted as a valuable contribution to Blue Growth, it is not
clear how to practically implement it in European seas.
1.3.1 The THAL-CHOR Project
THAL-CHOR (2015) (Cross-border cooperation for Maritime Spatial Planning
Development) Interreg project seeks the development of a methodology for
Fig. 1.5 TROPOS work packages breakdown. (Source: TROPOS 2012)
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P. Koundouri et al.