The Perception of Polish Business Stakeholders of the Local Economic Impact of Maritime Spatial Planning Promoting the Development of Offshore Wind Energy

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Many thanks for inviting me to review this manuscript.

My recommendations to improve this work are the following:

• the abstract should present the most relevant outcomes of the study;
• the used methodology should be explained in more detail - for example, adding a methodological scheme;
• there are no study limitations and future research lines - this section should be added

There are also minor issues that should be revised as:

• The numbering of the sections should be revised (i.e., the introduction as no numbering... add please)
• The author as no affiliation added..

etc etc etc...

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your recommendations and many valuable comments. I have tried to answear them in order to improve the quality of article. Please see the attachment, the changes are in track changes mode.

1. additional information in abstract are given
2. addtional Figure with methodological scheme is created 
3. some study limitations and future research lines are added.
4. numbering and affiliation is also corrected. 

Kind Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper raises an important point, namely the impact of MSP on local development in Poland. This is a new issue at least in the Baltic Sea Region . Since in these countries rural and peripheral areas still play an important role it is my belief that, without opening a number of development perspectives for them, the MSP will not demonstrate its full development potential. But before printing  I would like to suggest to the author the following:

1. Please reconsider the title. The current title “The local economic impact of Maritime Spatial Planning on offshore wind energy development as perceived by Polish business stakeholders” makes an impression that your paper is on the MSP impact on OWF development whereas the paper is on impact of the MSP on local development due to promotion of OWF.
2. 10H rule should be explained it is not clear what you mean by that
3. Data statement is missing. It should be explained where data is stored and how they can be used by other researchers. This is an issue of ethics since you have conducted in depth interviews.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your revision and valuable comments. I have tried to answear them in order to improve the quality of article. Please see the attachment, the changes are in track changes mode.

1. The title is changed in order to better present the logic of article
2. 10H rule is shortly explained to make this paragraph more clear
3. Data statment is also added to fulfill the ethic requirements and make it accessible for other researches to obtain.

Kind Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf