A number of commentators have argued that up until now marine/maritime spatial planning (MSP) research and practice have been dominated by blue economy and environmental concerns and have tended to neglect what might be regarded as social sustainability concerns. To gain more insight into the character and extent of such a gap, as well as how to address it, this article examines how social sustainability has been addressed in peer reviewed scientific articles on MSP between 2005 and 2020. Using search terms such as participation, democracy, social inclusion, social cohesion, equity we systematically identify and review 310 scientific articles that address diverse social sustainability concerns within MSP and marine governance. The review showed that very few papers systematically conceptualised or developed a coherent framework for engaging with social sustainability. Instead, they mostly addressed particular social concerns including participation and engagement, equity and social justice, socio-cultural values and preferences. Marine management and planning efficiency, as well as related instrumental framings of the merits of participation were the key arguments for including these dimensions of social sustainability in MSP. In terms of how to better include social sustainability in MSP, most attention was given to social-cultural mapping and ways to improve social inclusion/participation while also redressing exclusion and maldistribution of outcomes in MSP practice. We conclude that there is a need to deepen and diversify MSP inquiry with respect to social sustainability. In particular, scholars would do well to delve deeper and more broadly in social science literature to find inspiration on ways to understand and elucidate social issues. Here, the enormous body of relevant work on justice, power, critical institutionalism, political ecology and terrestrial planning literatures has hardly been tapped. It is also evident from this review that there is a need for both the academic and practice-based communities to more comprehensively address how the multidimensions of social sustainability interact with each other, as well as with economic and environmental aspects of marine planning and governance. Based on these observations, we highlight a set of suggestions on how to develop MSP research and practice on social sustainability. Most importantly, we argue that more in-depth co-production, linking scholars, practitioners and society actors, is needed.

许多评论员认为，到目前为止，海洋/海洋空间规划（MSP）的研究和实践一直以蓝色经济和环境问题为主导，并且往往忽略了可能被视为社会可持续性问题的问题。为了更深入地了解这种差距的性质和程度，以及如何解决这一差距，本文探讨了2005年至2020年间关于MSP的同行评审科学文章如何解决社会可持续性问题。民主，社会包容，社会凝聚力，平等，我们系统地识别和审查了310篇科学文章，这些文章解决了MSP和海洋治理中的各种社会可持续发展问题。审查表明，很少有论文系统地概念化或建立了一个与社会可持续性息息相关的一致框架。相反，他们主要解决了特殊的社会问题，包括参与和参与，公平与社会正义，社会文化价值观和偏好。海洋管理和规划效率以及参与的优点的相关工具框架是将社会可持续性的这些方面纳入MSP的关键论点。在如何更好地将社会可持续性纳入MSP方面，最关注的是社会文化映射和改善社会包容性/参与度的方法，同时也纠正了MSP实践中成果的排斥和分布不均。我们得出结论，有必要在社会可持续性方面加深MSP查询并使之多样化。特别是，学者们最好在社会科学文献中进行更深入，更深入的研究，以找到理解和阐明社会问题的方式的灵感。在这里，关于正义，权力，批判制度主义，政治生态学和陆地规划文献的大量相关工作几乎没有被利用。从这次审查中还可以明显看出，学术界和实践界都需要更全面地解决社会可持续发展的各个方面如何相互影响以及海洋规划和治理的经济和环境方面的相互作用。基于这些观察，我们重点介绍了有关如何发展MSP关于社会可持续性的研究和实践的一系列建议。最重要的是，我们认为需要更深入的联合制作，将学者，实践者和社会行为者联系起来。