Because of its location advantages and rich natural resources, coastal zone has a great development value in promoting population agglomeration and frequent economic development activities. However, the contradiction between shortterm economic interests pursuit and long-term ecological environment protection is prominent. Coastal zone spatial governance is a public management process in order to achieve effective allocation of coastal zone spatial resources and balance of interests of multiple subjects under the background of maritime power. It is also an important application of the global governance theory in the coastal zone field with space as the breakthrough point. Aiming at the problems of land development and sewage discharge in coastal zone, offshore fishery resources and disaster threat, this paper studies the global coastal zone spatial governance mechanism and its operation mode, including three types of mechanisms: incentive, coordination and restraint, so as to provide experience and reference for China's coastal space governance.

maritime power  /  coastal zone  /  space governance