ABSTRACT
Multiple use management is an approach to ocean management that aims to achieve integration among different activities at sea and an acceptable balance of outcomes across the full range of ocean uses. This reflects the principle in the Preamble to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that "the problems of ocean space are closely interrelated and need to be considered as a whole" (United Nations, 1983, 1). It has been translated into the well-established concept of integrated oceans management to be adopted both at the national and regional levels. This became an explicit principle, for example, in the Seoul Ocean Declaration adopted for the Pacific Ocean by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ocean-related Ministers in Seoul in 2002.
