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Report on APEC Advanced Training on Marine Spatial Planning for the Pacific Rim

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Published Date December 2013
Type of Publication Reports
Publication Under SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE), Ocean and Fisheries Working Group (OFWG)
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Pages 30
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Description

This report provides a background and summary of the above training held in September 2013.

The objectives of project seek to:
- Enhance the capacity building of the development, implementation of MSP for the Asia Pacific region by sharing experiences and best practices of MSP.
- Understand the marine spatial planning process design & influence on successful implementation, including the question of scale and scope, the topdown & bottom-up approaches etc.
- Get familiar with reconciling the seeming contradiction of multi-stakeholder, multi-objective planning processes through integrating socioeconomic and ecosystem services & trade-offs assessment.
- Discuss the new ideas and technology advance of MSP and disseminate the outputs and outcomes of the self-funded project on “APEC MSP Training Workshop” in 2012.