INCORPORATING ICM INTO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

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1 INCORPORATING ICM INTO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS Ivica Trumbic, UNEP/-PAP/RAC

2 Types of integration systemic: the need to ensure that all important interactions and issues are taken into consideration policy: coastal area management policies, strategies and plans have to be incorporated in the development policies, strategies and plans vertical: integration among institutions and administrative levels within the same sector horizontal: integration among various sectors at the same administrative level planning: among plans at various spatial levels, plans must not have conflicting objectives, strategies or planning proposals temporal: co-ordination among short-, medium- and long-term plans and programmes

3 Systemic integration: conflicting uses of coastal resources

4 Vertical integration

5 Government level National ICM process Local Planning level National Planning scale very large Geographic coverage Goals, guidelines, institutional and legal framework Regional 1:100,000 SubRegional 1:25,000 level Local Sectoral authorities Location 1:5,000 1:1,000 Sectoral Plans

6 Aquaculture Specific Initiatives Integrated Initiatives Planning integration: The case of aquaculture National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development Regional Plan recognizes the aquaculture potential and recommends aquaculture development in the certain area s management objectives requires aquaculture to be managed within an ecologically sustainable framework Strategic Environmental Assessment National Aquaculture Strategy goals include developing an ecologically sustainable industry Environmental Impact Assessment Local Aquaculture Development Plan aims to identify and develop areas for the ecological sustainability of a commercially viable aquaculture industry Geographic Scales Aquaculture Licence

7 IntegratedCoastal CoastalArea Area Integrated Management Management Planning integration: CCA as part of the ICAM process Initiation Planning Integrated Integrated Plan Plan Tourism Tourism Development Development Plan Plan CCCCAA Implementation

8 Croatian coast: Basic facts Length: around 6,000 km Population: 1.6 million 2,500 settlements 58 cities (Split, Rijeka, Dubrovnik), 153 municipalities Economy: tourism, transport, fisheries and mariculture, agriculture, industry (reduced) Biodiversity values (several GEF projects in course) Environmental pressures: urbanisation, transport, tourism, mariculture Environmental issues: waste water, solid waste, oil discharges, coastal land consumption, habitat degradation

9 Challenges Development potentials Development priorities Need for conservation and protection Conflicting sectoral objectives Institutional fragmentation Incomplete legislation Poor enforcement

10 Master Plan: Priority Issues define environmental, social and physical carrying capacity for tourism in the entire region and criteria for planning the sustainable tourism; define criteria for siting the mariculture facilities in order to reduce its negative environmental impacts and reduce conflicts with other coastal activities provision of strategic guidance for planning the environmental infrastructure for future sustainable development; define criteria for siting the facilities for nautical tourism; reduce harmful impacts of the maritime traffic, in particular effects of the introduction of invasive species; etc.

11 What is Master Plan It is the framework of an ICAM programme It identifies options for human progress in coastal area and recommends public and private actions to accomplish beneficial and sustainable change It is the operational plan which defines rules, resources, conservation issues, performance standards, authorities, objectives, use rights (permitted uses), development restrictions, participation, coordination mechanisms, EIA/SEA conditions, protected areas, setbacks, staff, training etc.

12 What is Master Plan : Dilemmas Scale Jurisdictional overlap could lead to conflicts among institutional users; few countries have interministerial committee for ICAM/coastal areas It has a fixed timeframe, but the plan s basis will be continuously changing and therefore in constant need of updating