Resumen de Designing baselines for developing an integrated coastal zone management system in the adriatic: Experience in Slovenia
Upon joining the EU, Slovenia has launched joint regulatory measures concerning spatial management. This also includes the recently adopted Integrated Coastal Zone Management Protocol (ICZM, 2008) that introduces a form of integrated management. In this framework Slovenia started to draw-up the appropriate starting-points to effectively incorporate the Protocol into the existing legislation and practice. This paper outlines the findings of the study directed at recognising the existing system and defining the starting points to develop an integrated management system.
Using descriptive and experimental methods, we simulated the drawing-up process of the Municipal Detailed Spatial Plan (OPPN) for spatial activities in the Strunjan Bay coastal zone. The simulation included three stages: spatial situation assessment, recognition of problem situations and its reasons, and definition of necessary systematic amendments.
We conclude that the existing system in Slovenia is hindered by the strictly separate jurisdictions for the marine part and terrestrial part, and the established methodological practice focusing purely on producing spatial planning documents for land. The aquatic land management system is based on a partial granting of concession rights for using water land and is, in reality, non-comparable to the land management system. To bring about “integration” we should find a new approach that would increase the range of participating stakeholders, starting points, and the methodological treatment manner.
This study was conducted under SHAPE2 project; it is among the first of its kind in Slovenia. Its results are intended to be used by local and national institutions responsible for coastal zone management.
