2. Materials & Methods
2.1. MSP Challenge 2050 (Muhammad)
MSP helps maritime spatial planner in decision making and planning of resources through stakeholder’s mutual understanding. It formulates implementation plans with due consideration to natural ecology and stakeholder activates. MSP provides a real-time simulator for an easy understanding of complex situations. MSP supports in planning and regulation of marine spatial claim that seems to be more difficult to plan otherwise on land. MSP experiment played at Memorial University of Newfoundland highlight this aspect by playing the board game (representing planning on the real sea) and computer game (representing real-time virtual simulator). The following sections describe methodological details of both the options.
2.1.1. Board Game
Board
game was played on board portraying resource and geographical location of an imaginary sea e.g. Rica Sea. All participants (see section 3.2.1) were on a single table and planning the Rica sea space through mutual discussion. Figure ---- give details of Rica sea geographical details along with strategic planning of marine spatial claims by competing stakeholders.