MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN

Annexe 2
Etudes de cas
Case studies
• impulse to save up, recycle and reuse of solid waste fixing aims to separate
waste at short, medium and long term
• set up of a pilot project for rehabilitation of quarries
• a moratorium for 5 years of important works on the coastline as well as road
infrastructures of high impact
• ...
Balanced or imbalanced current situation
In general, the area with major "unbalance" is that of Environmental topic sectors
(energy, water, waste, transport).
Areas that need to be improved would be local ecology and cultural heritage.
The balance areas could be population and quality of life.
Challenges for the future
The biggest challenge is the assumption of the change in the model, which means
that Local Agenda 21 and the total implication of the population in the setting up
of programs.
Necessary means to mobilise:
The measures to be carried out are: 10 actuation lines and 40 initiatives that will
allow to reach the desirable or rehabilitation scenario.
The main lessons learned
Key factors in the development of tourism: in the past, exploitation of natural
resources and their massive utilisation; nowadays sustainable use of these
resources and the recovering of some of them.
Explanatory factors of successful (or unsuccessful) relationship between tourism
and sustainable development:
Unsuccessful: Exploitation of natural resources - Massification in the urban
development - Lack of diversification - Lack of relationship citizens/tourism.
Successful: Private initiative - New environmental values - Public sector initiative -
Cohesion - Will to establish tourism as the main industry - Long term vision.
Relevant indicators: GPI; relationship between amount of tourists and residents;
unseasoning ratio.
Lessons learned to be applied in other Mediterranean areas: as a mature tourism
resort in the Mediterranean, all parts of the project could be applied in the
Mediterranean region. The case could serve as an example on how do not repeat
unsustainable practices and how to integrate local population in the process.
A success, a partial success or a failure in terms of local sustainable development:
in terms of local involvement, technical studies and political decisions we could say
that the Calvià Local Agenda 21 is a success.
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