Impediments to achieving integrated marine management across borders: The case of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

TY - JOUR

T1 - Impediments to achieving integrated marine management across borders

T2 - The case of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

AU - Cavallo, Marianna

AU - Borja, Angel

AU - Elliott, Mike

AU - Quintino, Victor

AU - Touza, Julia M.

N1 - © Elsevier, 2019. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy.

PY - 2019/5/1

Y1 - 2019/5/1

N2 - Several initiatives have been taken worldwide to promote international coordination and integrated approach in marine management. At the European level, ten years after the adoption of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Member State strategies still present some ecological, economic and social challenges. This review identifies the minor, intermediate and major impediments (respectively defined as ‘bottlenecks, showstoppers and train-wrecks’) to marine management, resulting from a 4-year analysis of national, regional and European reports. Most of the problems are linked to the resistance of countries to collaborate and to the inability to integrate the work already carried out under other pieces of legislation. The European countries will need to better integrate and coordinate their actions in marine management in the second cycle of the MSFD, in order to achieve its final goal of Good Environmental Status as well as the objectives of other environmental policies.

AB - Several initiatives have been taken worldwide to promote international coordination and integrated approach in marine management. At the European level, ten years after the adoption of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Member State strategies still present some ecological, economic and social challenges. This review identifies the minor, intermediate and major impediments (respectively defined as ‘bottlenecks, showstoppers and train-wrecks’) to marine management, resulting from a 4-year analysis of national, regional and European reports. Most of the problems are linked to the resistance of countries to collaborate and to the inability to integrate the work already carried out under other pieces of legislation. The European countries will need to better integrate and coordinate their actions in marine management in the second cycle of the MSFD, in order to achieve its final goal of Good Environmental Status as well as the objectives of other environmental policies.

KW - International Cooperation

KW - Regional Coherence

KW - Integrated Management

KW - Marine Strategy Framework Directive

U2 - 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.033

DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.033

M3 - Article

SN - 0308-597X

VL - 103

SP - 68

EP - 73

JO - Marine Policy

JF - Marine Policy

ER -