Chapter 12. Marine spatial planning in data-poor contexts

Introduction The Paddle project (“Planning in a liquid world with tropical stakes”) defines one of the objectives of marine spatial planning (MSP) as “reconciling human uses of the sea with conservation”. A crucial starting point for this is to obtain information on these uses to inform future governance actions. One approach to this that partially overcomes possible data gaps on human activities is to extract spatially explicit information from satellite images available on Google Earth and ..