Pan Baltic Scope

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The project aims to achieve coherent national maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea region and to build lasting macro-regional mechanisms for cross-border MSP cooperation. A number of cross border activities are planned within the project at different geographical levels to help national planning authorities comply with goals set in the MSP directive. The project will focus on: • Cross-border collaboration and consultation to support national maritime spatial planning processes, • Advancing the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach and data sharing, • Integrating land-sea interactions into maritime spatial planning. The project will develop and test tolls and methods for the practical implementation of an ecosystem-based approach in MSP relating to: • Implementation of an ecosystem-based approach, • Cumulative impacts, • Green infrastructure, • Socio-economic analyses. The project involves partners from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Sweden as well as VASAB, HELCOM and Nordregio.

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