Whither the U.S. National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2015
Keywords
Ocean, Policy, Coastal, Marine, Implementation plan, United States
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.11.013
Abstract
The need for a statutory framework to manage valuable marine resources in the United States is highlighted by problems such as fragmented ocean governance and increasing conflict over the use of ocean spaces. On July 19, 2010 President Obama signed Executive Order 13547 to create a National Ocean Policy (NOP) for the United States. A subsequent Implementation Plan, released in 2013, set up hundreds of actions to be accomplished between 2013 and 2025 to address economic, community, scientific and other issues. Progress implementing the NOP appears to have stalled. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the NOP and its Implementation Plan, and then discuss what needs to be done to bring the vision it set forth to fruition.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Marine Policy, v. 53, p. 198-212
Scholar Commons Citation
Torres, Hannah; Muller-Karger, Frank E.; Keys, D.; Thornton, H.; Luther, M.; and Alsharif, Kamal, "Whither the U.S. National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan?" (2015). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 1314.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/1314
