Marine Spatial Planning & Management

With roots in conservation planning and integrated coastal zone management, Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) emerged over the last two decades as a preferred approach for managing marine spaces and resources. With its extensive knowledge of marine and coastal ecosystems, and large accumulated experience of supporting sustainable governance processes, NIRAS is uniquely positioned to support public, private and civil society organisations in all phases of MSP processes. We conduct baseline and forecast analyses to help set the scope of MSP, and provide policy and legal advice for setting up the framework that underpins the entire MSP process. We provide advanced geospatial analysis and visualization tools to support spatial decision-making, and support all kinds of MSP stakeholder engagement processes to ensure inclusiveness and legitimacy. Building on our many years of experience of MSP in different parts of the world, NIRAS is a partner of choice for both capacity development and monitoring, evaluation and learning services.