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…

At sea, some solutions are often others’ problems, and the environment is the victim of our choices. The development of maritime and coastal governance is the key to sustainable management of the marine and coastal environment.

Faced with the rapid evolution of maritime activities, it is increasingly necessary to innovate with regard to the regulation and planning of these activities. These developments raise new and difficult questions, particularly in the field of human sciences (political science, geography, sociology, law, etc.), which must take them on board and establish the academic foundations for resolving them.