Civil society participation in the Scottish marine planning process and the role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations

Brooker, Esther; Hopkins, Charlotte Rachael; Devenport, Emilie; Greenhill, Lucy; Duncan, Calum

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“…In the case of fisheries management, participatory mapping rendered fishing communities visible, providing an opportunity for better area-based management that provided opportunities for community development (St Martin & Hall-Aber, 2008). Stakeholder capacity to engage with planning processes can be enhanced through the use of skilled intermediaries, including environmental non-government organisations (Brooker, Hopkins, Devenport, Greenhill, & Duncan, 2019) and advocate planners (Flannery et al, 2016;Tafon et al, 2018;Saunders, Gilek, & Tafon, 2019). These intermediaries can have either social or environmental remits and have the knowledge, lobbying, political and planning skills to act in the interest of the public and marginalised stakeholders.…”

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The post-political nature of marine spatial planning and modalities for its re-politicisation

Clarke¹,

Flannery²

2019

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Marine spatial planning (MSP) has become the most adopted approach for sustainablemarine governance. While MSP has transformative capacity, evaluations of itsimplementation illustrate large gaps between how it is conceptualised and how it ispracticed. We argue that these gaps arise from MSP being implemented throughpost-political processes. Although MSP has been explored through post-politicallenses, these evaluations are incomplete and do not provide sufficient detail aboutthe complex nature of the post-political condition. Drawing on seminal literature,we conceptualise the post-political as consisting of highly interconnectedmodalities of depoliticisation, including: neoliberalism; choreographed participation;path dependency; technocratic-managerialism; and the illusion of progressivechange. Using these modalities as an analytical framework, we evaluate EnglishMSP and find that it focuses on entrenching neoliberal logic through: tokenisticparticipation; wholescale adoption of path-dependent solutions; obstructionistdeployment of inactive technological solutions; and promising progressive change.We do not, however, view the post-political condition as unresolvable and wedevelop a suite of suggestions for the re-politicisation of MSP which, collectively,could form the basis for more radical forms of MSP.

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The post-political nature of marine spatial planning and modalities for its re-politicisation

Clarke¹,

Flannery²

2019

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“…Greater outreach was thought to be needed (RO14) and the role of non-state actors was highlighted as relevant, for example ENGOs in supporting public communication and participation (Brooker et al, 2019).…”

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Adaptation to climate change–related ocean acidification: An adaptive governance approach

Greenhill

Kenter

Dannevig

2020

Ocean & Coastal Management

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Climate change-driven ocean acidification (OA) is causing rapid change to global ecosystems and poses a significant threat to marine life. However, predicting ecosystem effects remains highly uncertain and governance responses to OA are not yet forthcoming. Adaptive governance can provide a means to deal with this uncertainty and we consider its application to the polycentric governance of adaptation responses to OA in Scotland, focussing on the aquaculture industry as a vulnerable sector. A workshop was used to develop potential adaptation responses to OA and to gain information about present and potential capacity for adaptive governance at national and regional levels. Scottish legislation, policy and planning documents were subsequently analysed to enable description of how governance arrangements constrain or enable adaptation responses. Legislative and policy analysis indicates convergence across emerging mechanisms in support of adaptive governance. Recent advances in climate change adaptation in Scotland promotes integration of adaptation into wider Scottish Government policy development and functions, based on iterative and collaborative processes across scales. Alongside this, institutional change in coastal and marine governance, including a partnershipled regional marine planning process and devolution of management through Crown Estate Scotland, seek to advance new models of locally-led and learning-based planning and management which can support adaptation. Better integration across policy and planning mechanisms is needed to enhance adaptive capacity, including between climate change adaptation, marine planning and aquaculture planning and management. This could be enabled through co-ordination of monitoring and review processes to promote learning across scale and establishing links between existing and proposed collaborative groups to enhance development of adaptation responses. However, expansion of the aquaculture industry faces significant social and ecological constraints which mean accommodating adaptation through spatial measures is difficult, and is further challenged by the uncertainty in predicting specific OA effects. The low adaptive capacity of the prevailing aquaculture licensing regime is identified as a potential constraint to adaptive governance and recommendations to enhance flexibility and enable adaptation are made.

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Civil society participation in the Scottish marine planning process and the role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations

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The post-political nature of marine spatial planning and modalities for its re-politicisation

The post-political nature of marine spatial planning and modalities for its re-politicisation

Adaptation to climate change–related ocean acidification: An adaptive governance approach

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