Sea Use Planning and Management simulations

Abstract

This paper describes the simulation exercises in Sea Use Planning and Management carried out at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden. The objectives of the simulations are to reinforce what has been learned in lecture programmes, and to provide experience in the use of simulation as a planning technique. Exercise one deals with the development of a new port. Participants represent various concerned ministries, they make planning decisions and inputs on a sectorial basis regarding location, technical characteristics, environmental and social impacts. They are reconvened as interdisciplinary Task Forces and produce a final integrated plan.

Exercise two involves the planning and management of multiple activities in an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)—including the problems of shared fish stocks, cross boundary hydrocarbons, and a disputed zone with an opposite state. The procedure of progressing from sectorial to integrated approaches is again adopted, with the objective of achieving the net gains from sea uses within the concept of sustainable development.