Ocean multi-use scientific literature bibliographies

Bibtex files listing and describing scientific publications dealing with ocean multi-use and multiple uses published until the end of 2020. The file called "2O210209_Scopus_final_KWclean.bib" is a collection of publications dealing with multi-use in its broader sense while the file named "20210209_Scopus_final_short_KWclean.bib" is a selection of publications refering to multi-use in its narrower sense (i.e. synergistic combinations of human activities at sea). 

Both file are the result of the following process:

The bibliographic search was performed on Scopus on publications’ title, abstract and keywords as follows: “multi-use” OR “multiple uses” OR “multifunctional use” OR “co-use” AND “ocean” OR “sea” OR “marine” OR “maritime” OR “coastal”. Filters were used to exclude conference papers, notes and non-classified publications. This query returned 1 700 distinct documents published between 1970 and 2020. After individually reviewing each one, 1 389 publications were purged from the corpus because they were exclusively focused on the terrestrial realm, dealing with other topics than human activities at sea or approaching marine uses separately.

Once these steps were completed, the corpus contained 311 references, including 278 journal papers and 33 book chapters. Some papers published before 2010 and others dealing with pescatourism were not captured by Scopus since they did not explicitly refer to MU or its synonyms. In the first case, the authors mentioned in the title, the abstract or the keywords the uses combined instead of multi-use and, in the second one, they do not always label their research with this term. In spite of these limitations, the corpus was larger and more diverse than expected. The papers dealing with the European conception of multi-use were embedded in a large number of publications mainly related to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and secondarily to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). In fact, protected perimeters allowing human activities such as fishing or tourism, as well as marine spaces covered by planning processes are often described as “multiple uses” and even “multi-use” territories. Schupp et al. already mentioned that ocean multi-use was linked to the management model inspired by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park zoning experience, but they did not explain how these two objects of study were connected. This relationship deserves special attention since MU, MPAs and MSP address, albeit quite differently, the same problem: the long-term co-existence of intensifying and diversifying activities at sea. Thus, it was decided to extract the 68 papers related to the European conception of multi-use to compare this sub-corpus to the main one. The first one is referred as the short collection and to the second one as the large collection.