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Technical Chamber of Integration with En- to adopt management strategies based on In 2019 the GT UCAM was extinguished, (2019) established some essential points to
vironmental Management and Territorial. ecosystems, with emphasis on Marine Spa- being replaced by the MSP Working Group. establish an Agenda for the Blue Economy:
When analyzing the other “frontier” of tial Planning (MSP). Recently, the Executive Committee for Ma-
coastal management, that is, the Exclusive To this end, its implementation is sup- rine Spatial Planning (EC-MSP) was created . To be considered by the economy system
Economic Zone (EEZ), the entire process is ported by monitoring and evaluation steps (Ordinance MB 235/2020), in the context in the long term;
relatively more recent, being centered on (in both, coastal and marine environments) of CIRM. The EC-MSP has 21 members and . Development of governance and strate-
the figure of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). through the development of indicators for its purpose is to carry out the tasks neces- gic planning;
MSP is defined in Ehler (2021) as ecosys- ecological, economic, and social objectives sary to fulfill the goals and reach the ob- . Prioritization of innovations (bioecon-
tem-based ocean management, or in Ehler (COI, 2021). In global terms, in 2019, sev- jective established for the Marine Spatial omy, combating pollution, diversification
and Douvere (2009) as a “public process of enty countries had some initiative related to Planning Action - MSP of the SPSR. of the energy matrix, advances in explora-
analysis and allocation of the spatial and MSP, with only 25 of them having Marine Still in a quiescent phase, the MSP in tion resources, tourism, algae cultivation,
temporal distribution of human activities in Spatial Management Plans implemented or Brazil does not have a legal framework. among others);
marine areas”. Recently, the Intergovern- approved by their governments (FRAZÃO Considering that the operationalization of . Development of the oceanic culture;
mental Oceanographic Commission of the SANTOS et al., 2018). the Blue Economy crosses the development . Alignment with international strategies.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and In Brazil, despite not being institution- of the MSP in Brazil, this is an obstacle in
Cultural Organization (IOC-UNESCO) high- alized by a legal instrument, the MSP was the Blue Economy Agenda. The absence of The organization of the multiple ac-
lighted that the MSP is a comprehensive one of the actions defined in the Sectorial a MSP that disregards leads to governance tivities in the marine environment brings
and strategic process to analyze and allo- Plan for Sea Resources (SPSR, 2010-2023) and EBM takes the risk of reducing the Blue perspectives of a Blue Economy in line with
cate the uses of marine areas in order to and permeated several actions of the Fed- Economy to the increase in ocean explora- the principles of the EBM, being prepon-
minimize conflicts between activities and eral Action Plan (PAF 2017-2019). Accord- tion, and in this sense, Gerhardinger et al. derant for its development.
maximize benefits, while ensuring the resil- ing to Gandra et al. (2018), Brazil start-
ience of marine ecosystems (UNESCO-IOC ed the process of elaborating the MSP in 4. Coastal management in Brazil
and European Commission, 2021, pg. 23) 2011, having as ground zero a session of
According to UNESCO’s IOC, the Blue the Coastal Management Integration Group The management of a territory presup- different governmental levels and sciences,
Economy concept is a lens to see and de- (GI-GERCO - nonexistent since Federal De- poses prior planning, aiming to identify op- technologies and cultures in a public policy
velop policy agendas that simultaneous- cree nº 9759/2019), which unfolded, in portunities and weaknesses from an envi- dedicated to the theme.
ly improve the health of the oceans and 2013, in a specific group dedicated to this ronmental, socioeconomic and technological When analyzing the Integrated Coastal
economic growth, in a way that is com- theme within the scope of the Interminis- point of view. The entire premise of this plan- Management (ICM) policy in the country, it
patible with the principles of equity and terial Commission for the Resources of the ning is based on three basic concepts: territo- can be said that its implementation began,
social inclusion. Both the EU and the IOC Sea (CIRM), the GT UCAM (Working Group ry, space, and region (NICOLODI, 2021). effectively, in 1988 by Federal Law 7.661/88
encourage the use of a joint roadmap, Shared Use of the Marine Environment). An Limonad (2004) emphasizes that the plan- and regulated 16 years later by Federal De-
which has five main steps: (1) Encourag- important milestone in this discussion took ning of a region can be interpreted as a so- cree 5,300/2004. This entire framework is
ing cross-border EMP; (2) Promote the Blue place in 2014 with the seminar entitled cial construction that tends to meet political the result of a process that had been matur-
Economy in line with the 2030 Agenda; “Marine Space Integrated Planning”, with interests, being a product of hegemonic and ing since the early 1970s, when Integrated
(3) Stimulating ecosystem-based MSP; (4) the exchange of national and international counter-hegemonic practices, constituting a Coastal Management had its initial mile-
Capacity building in all dimensions; (5) Mu- experiences. Since then, the MSP has made part of the social construction of the space stone, configuring itself as a management
tual understanding and communication. In occasional advances in some areas of the ex- of a society. Thus, planning and integrat- process with an eminently territorial focus.
this sense, to promote the Blue Economy, tensive Brazilian coast, mainly in academic ed management should logically aggregate More recently, a complementary point
and consequently the sustainable develop- initiatives, and is still in an initial pre-plan- the different sectors of interest (economic of view has been incorporated into the
ment of maritime activities, it is necessary ning phase (GERHARDINGER et al., 2019). and social), the different spatial scales, the conception of the concept itself: the ICM is

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