Planning in the socio-economic sphere as a process of analyzing and determining some scenarios and options for the future has always gone to the spatial and territorial levels. One of the new methods of planning in the maritime sphere is the MSP. In this article, the research area of the marine spatial planning method is the Baltic Sea. This study is necessary to assess the natural resource potential in some coastal territories and to study the functionality of zoning. The MSP method is also required for the analysis of aqua-territorial economic structures in separate coastal-marine segments (Lombard et al., 2019). In reviewing the above factors, a further management plan for the Baltic Sea coastal area has been developed. The plan includes slowing down the eutrophication of the sea and repairing coastal regions in the form of lighthouses, piers, and nearby settlements. The next point of the plan is to calculate options for the economic development of marine geosystems for further financial benefit in the form of improved logistics of sea commodity routes.
Any planning entails various types of benefits to the state that bring the MSP into the economic realm. From a financial point of view, the plan made through marine planning is to increase the efficiency of the use of maritime space. Planning reduces the risks of potential news in the long term. In terms of social benefit is the identification and protection of cultural heritage. Environmental use is the control of the purity of the sea, which removes the possibility of blooms of potential allergens.
The method of marine spatial planning is a new tool to analyze the beneficial use of maritime space. Planning allows the correct use of economic investments of the state to prevent possible financial risks in an unprofitable object. In addition to economic troubles, this method of planning allows the preservation of the marine ecosystem, and the regulation of the actions of various users of nature, competing with each other for maritime space. Thus, MSP should become an essential tool for the spatial socio-economic development of coastal regions.
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Lombard, A. T., Ban, N. C., Smith, J. L., Lester, S. E., Sink, K. J., Wood, S. A., Jacob, A. L., Kyriazi, Z., Tingey, R., & Sims, H. E. (2019). Practical approaches and advances in spatial tools to achieve multi-objective marine spatial planning. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(1). Web.