Evaluation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in ...

Evaluation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe – Final Report
Status Main achievements Main shortcomings
Slovenia
(III)
• Slovenia submitted a national report to
EU, but it does not contain a formal national
ICZM strategy.
• The efforts of Slovenia are assessed as
equivalent to a national ICZM strategy due
to the establishment and successful
running of two major programmes, i.e. the
Regional Development Programme (2002-
2006) and the Coastal Area Management
Programme Slovenia (CAMP Slovenia)
(2004-2006).
In Slovenia several positive features with
respect to ICZM can be noticed. These are:
• A high political commitment, expressed on
the national and regional levels.
• A broad support of an integrated approach
to development and regard for environmental
issues.
• The existence of an appropriate legal
framework.
• The existence of suitable institutions on
the regional level (regional development
agencies and others)
• A high level of regional experience in an
integrated approach to development.
• No local government structure is yet
developed, therefore the linkage between
region and local level is dominated by the
regional and national level.
• There are quite a number of new laws and
lack of experience on how to implement
them.
Spain
(II)
• A national report was submitted containing
a national ICZM strategy. First steps of
implementation have started.
• Convincing initiatives, measures and
activities are proposed that take account
of the highly decentralized governmental
structure of Spain and the need for new
multi-level governance instruments concerned
with coastal management
Main strategic elements of the National ICZM
Strategy consist of
• A „Director’s Plan for the Sustainability of
the Coast“ is envisaged to be developed
(which shall become an important policy
and regulatory instrument supporting the
already existing and to quite some extent
successful 1988 Shores Act (Ley de
Costas))
• Full implementation only in 2008
• While the strategy foresees participatory
elements sufficiently, the strategy itself was
not worked out in a convincing participatory
manner.
• Setting up the Sustainability Observatory
for the Spanish coast (to monitor coastal
processes and management)
• Concluding cooperation agreements and
following arrangements with the autonomous
communities (to create new vertical
coordinating mechanisms)
• Establishing a National Coastal Council
(creating new important horizontal and
vertical coordinating mechanisms involving
all important stakeholders)
• Converting coastal land for protection and
restoration
• Backing up management by efforts in
research, development and innovation
activities
• Creating awareness and promoting
education and capacity building for coastal
management.
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