Guidelines:
MSPglobal International Guide on Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning
High resolution | Low resolution
(IOC Manuals and Guides n° 89, 2021)
(IOC Manuals and Guides n° 89, Volume 2, 2025)
(IOC Manuals and Guides n° 89, Volume 3, 2025)
Data toolboxes:
(IOC Technical Series 196, Vol. 1, 2025)
MSPglobal Data Toolbox Volume 2 – How to use Ocean Observations for Marine Spatial Planning
(IOC Technical Series 196, Vol. 2, 2026)
(IOC Technical Series 196, Vol. 3, 2026)
Good practices for stakeholder engagement:
(IOC Technical Series 189, Vol. 1, 2024)
(IOC Technical Series 189, Vol. 2, 2024)
Engaging Offshore Wind Sector in Marine Spatial Planning. Volume 1: Sector Overview
(IOC Technical Series 197, Vol 1, 2025)
Engaging Offshore Wind Sector in Marine Spatial Planning. Volume 2: Good Practices
(IOC Technical Series 197, Vol. 2, 2025)
Policy briefs:
Identifying Existing and Future Conditions in Marine Spatial Planning
(IOC Policy Brief n° 1, 2021)
Marine Spatial Planning and the Sustainable Blue Economy
(IOC Policy Brief n° 2, 2021)
Climate Change and Marine Spatial Planning
(IOC Policy Brief n° 3, 2021)
Capacity Development in Marine Spatial Planning
(IOC Policy Brief n° 4, 2021)
Ocean Governance and Marine Spatial Planning
(IOC Policy Brief n° 5, 2021)
Regional assessments:
La contribución de los sectores marítimos a una economía azul sostenible para el Pacífico Sudeste
(IOC Technical Series, 154; ICAM Dossier n° 11, 2021)
National assessments:
Avaliação rápida do MSPglobal para o planejamento espacial marinho no Brasil
(IOC Technical Series 215, 2025)
A Sustainable Blue Economy
for Trinidad and Tobago
(IOC Technical Series, 166; ICAM Dossier n° 16, 2021)
(IOC Technical Series, 159, 2021)
Other:
Assessment of global capacity needs on Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning 2025
(IOC Technical Series, 212, 2025)
Compendium of existing and emerging
cross-border and transboundary MSP practices
(IOC/INF-1395, 2021)
Recommendations to promote knowledge
exchange and transfer on MSP
(IOC Technical Series, 167, 2021)
MSPglobal Initiative:
Lessons learned
(IOC Technical Series, 169, 2021)
Special volume of Revista Costas on
Marine Spatial Planning in Iberoamerica
(Volume 2, Special Edition, 2021)
Event reports:
Event report of the MSPglobal Online Conference: 2.0 Closing & 3.0 Kick-off (4 September 2025)
(IOC Workshop Report, 317, 2025)
Event Report of the MSPglobal 2.0 Kick-off Conference (online, 6 September 2023)
(IOC Workshop Report, 309, 2023)
Communication products:
Articles:
- Marine Spatial Planning: Sustainably Managing Our Seas at a Global Level (ECO Magazine, January/February 2020)
- Empowering a new generation of stakeholders to sustainably plan our ocean (The Journal of Ocean Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2020)
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Iberoamerican Contribution for the Achievement of the Objectives of the Roadmap to Accelerate Marine Spatial Planning Processes Worldwide (Revista Costas, Volume 2, Special Edition, 2021)