Human Rights and Ocean Governance: The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

Maritime spatial planning (MSP) has become the dominant marine management paradigm, with MSP frameworks already at various stages of elaboration and implementation in more than half of all coastal states. However, as experience with MSP accrues, a central systemic shortcoming has become apparent, insofar as the normative frameworks that underpin MSP tend to be grounded in a rationalistic and economistic wor...