REGIONAL MEETING OF PLANCOAST PARTNERS FROM ADRIATIC SEA REGION
Working Group on local situations, Kotor 27th March, 3pm – 5pm
§ Focusing on main problems of each local situation
§ Aiming to identify common problems
§ Detailing problems that can be addressed by spatial planning.
Palombina (Italy) – Piero Remitti (facilitator)
- conflicts between bathing summer activities/industry/transport system (railway + national road)
- sanitation/sewage system of the beach
Kotorska Bay (Montenegro) – Aleksandra Ivanovic and Dragoljub Markovic
- conflicts between tourism/industrial/fishery activities
- urbanization, meaning new building pressure on the sea and access to the sea through old and new docks. New householders (mainly from abroad) are “privatizing” the shoreline and the old docks, even if a national low from 1992 states that shoreline must be “public”.
- sanitation – “only” 180 water discharges are known and registered (and not treated)
Baltic Sea – Bernhard Heinrichs
- conflicts between tourism activities and nature conservation. A Voluntary Agreement (to become law in next times) has been signed between Environmental Organizations, Tourism sector and Public bodies, including spatial zoning and definition of areas allowed to tourism and/or nature conservation.
Vlora (Albany) – Marieta Mima and Eno Dodbiba
- illegal activities (fishing, hunting, building, excavation). Enforcement of public bodies and monitoring are urgently needed
- tourism industry not eco-oriented
- wetlands management
- no participation – an Environmental Management Plan of the area has been anyway defined
Neretva (BiH) – Silvana Cavar and Skrba Sasa
- illegal activities (buildings, fisching)
- lack of building areas
- sea-border definition with Croatia
But a very, very good water quality.
Emilia-Romagna – Maria Romani
North area = conflicts between tourism urbanization and nature conservation
Central area = conflicts between ports and urbanization
South area = conflicts between tourism and urbanization (Rimini)
Proposal for working group/thematic session during next Plancoast meeting in Constanta.
Title/subject: basic numbers to support analysis, policies and decision making processes in ICZM.
Main topics, questions and answers - To identify common solutions (or tools, or approaches, etc.) for local and specific problems we need a common language, at least on technical point of view. To build a common “technical” language we can start from very basic elements, like numbers. Which numbers/parameters (chemical, physical, social, biological, economic, etc.) we have to know for a correct ICZM implementation in our local situations? And which numbers we (especially our politicians) know and really use at the moment? We can call them “indicators”. Is it possible/useful to define a common set of indicators for ICZM, at least at “sea/basin” level?
Work development
1. Introduction – The Adriatic Common Indicators set, Piero Remitti (15 min.)
2. Each partner, starting from basic problems summarized during last working group in Kotor, presents numbers and indicators used (or needed) in planning tools and management activities of his own situation. (1 h.). NB: local presentations (max.10 min.) must be requested to partners at least one month before.
3. Presentation – The EU-DG Environment ICZM Expert Group on Indicators: works and results, Francoise Breton (or different EG representative, to be contacted sooner) (30 min.)
4. Open space for questions, considerations, etc. (15 min.)
Total time: 2 h. (plus coffee break)