Speaking at the event, Dr. Nguyen VanThanh, Secretary of Hai Phong city’s Party Committee, affirmed thatever-increasing economic development is putting a great deal of pressureon the environment and aquatic resources, which requires MSP forsustainable development.
He said Hai Phong cityprioritises the application of integrated coastal management and marine spatial planning.
For MSP to be successful, Vietnam needs to exert more effort indeveloping technical guidance and define the legal aspects of this newmethod in the national system of policies and laws, said Assoc. Prof.Dr. Nguyen Chu Hoi, former Deputy Director General of VietnamAdministration of Seas and Islands under the Ministry of NaturalResources and Environment.
The two-day event is partof the programme “Mangroves for the Future (MFF)” regulated by theInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Vietnamand financially supported by the Norwegian Agency for DevelopmentCooperation (NORAD), Swedish International Development CooperationAgency (SIDA) and Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).
MSP is a process that brings together multiple users of the ocean fromindustry, service sectors and government to society and localcommunities in a bid to build strategies for sustainable marineresources usage.-VNA
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