Figure 1.
Marine spatial planning (MSP) study areas around the North Atlantic.
United States (blue), Norway (red) and Belgium (Green, detail in inset). The US ocean policy area is divided into 9 planning areas (named in figure) that span the EEZ, but the borders between each of these areas have not been officially defined.
Figure 2.
Institutional and stakeholder integration in Belgium.
Institutional bodies, stakeholder participation and integration, related to marine and maritime governance in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
Figure 3.
Institutional, government, and stakeholder integration in Norway.
Institutional bodies, stakeholder participation and integration, related the development and implementation of the Integrated Management plan for the Lofoten – Barents sea area.
Figure 4.
Governance structure and integration in the US Ocean Policy development.
A) At a national level leading the Ocean Policy development. B) Regional implementation in regional planning bodies (RPB), exemplified by the Northeast RPB.
Table 1.
Horizontal, vertical and stakeholder integration in the MSP processes in Belgium, Norway and the US.