From now on, the ocean is a world which opens widely to economic activities. The Blue Economy exploits the resources of the Ocean and the maritime space. How to pull the best, while protecting exceptional ecosystems?

Seas and coasts are shared common goods, where the general interest generaly overlaps with contradictory particular interests, and a multitude of activities. The Integrated Maritime Policy aims at developing a shared and strategic vision of these stakes, and at declining it concretely (strategies, action plans).

Land use management and urbanism allow to organize activites on land. Maritime Spatial Planning transposes this approach at sea, on a three to four-dimensional space wich belongs to every and any-one…

Maritime and terrestrial stakes are concentrated on the coastal space, where they overlap and often oppose. ICZM aims at bringing coherency to these stakes in coastal zones.