Maritime Spatial Planning on Land? Planning for Land-Sea Interaction Conflicts in the Danish Context

ABSTRACT

Denmark is currently producing their first Maritime Spatial Plan, as required by the European Union’s Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89. This article investigates the Danish approach to governing land-sea interactions, exploring the impacts of various institutional and procedural factors on the practice of planning at the land-sea interface in Denmark. We find that in Denmark, the MSP process has priority over the terrestrial planning system, that there is a complex institutional set-up with a lack of integration between the maritime and terrestrial planning systems, and that there exist differing perspectives about the importance of certain industries leading to conflicts.

KEYWORDS:

• MSP
• LSI
• institutional complexity
• tourism
• mariculture

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).