Study on the management of marine economic zoning: An integrated framework for China

The paper uses economic zoning methods, marine spatial planning methods, and marine functional zoning methods to construct an evaluation system which considers factors such as social and economic development, carrying capacity on resource and environment, marine development and utilization, and regional development potential. As comprehensive indices, the factors are directly related to the regional marine economic development. Using the evaluation characteristics of different types of marine economic regional development, this paper applies the matrix discriminant method of regional divisions to form the judgment matrix of marine economic areas. With the actual evaluation results of sea area indices, it determines the type of marine economic zoning and proposes a reasonable marine economic zoning scheme. Simultaneously, the adopted methods and system are simple and practical, and general theories of economic and marine zoning are used.