Guidelines for the integration of the Socioeconomic impact of MSP

Socioeconomic data are an asset to support Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). Collecting and analysing these data can offer valuable insights into human activities in marine areas and how MSP may affect or be affected by them.

However, the ability to effectively utilise socioeconomic data in MSP has been hampered by three factors:

1. The limited social and economic information available in the plans.
2. The lack of spatially explicit socioeconomic data
3. The challenges to disentangle the marine and the terrestrial component in crucial economic activities.

This report summarises the state-of-the-art and provides recommendations on integrating the socioeconomic dimension into MSP processes.