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1. The Transnational PlanCoast Study: A closer look at structure and content Kira Gee sustainable projects Presentation 4th July 2007 / Schwerin

2. The transnational report is your report! • Our role: Co-ordinators, co-authors, editors • Today: agree on overall structure and purpose • s.Pro will then: • Keep developing that structure in response to your needs • Pull together information from various sources • Write and edit the final text

3. Purpose of the transnational report • Main target group: SPATIAL PLANNERS responsible for Coastal • Zones / Maritime Areas, additional target groups at policy level, • decision-makers, researchers etc. • Purpose: to provide hands-on guidance (tools/instruments) • on how to realise effective planning for coastal zones / maritime areas • Who do we want to address? • What are the needs of our chosen target groups? • What messages are particularly important? • What are the expectations: Yours, of target groups?

4. Proposed structure of the transnational report • Why spatial planning in coastal zones/maritime areas? • Securing the necessary baseline information • How to carry out spatial planning • Implementation, monitoring and control • Supporting processes • Summary of recommendations • Annex: CD Rom

5. Chapter 1: Why spatial planning? • Coasts and seas: some global trends • Climate change • Sea level rise • Increasing pressure on coastal and marine systems • Coasts and seas : increasing complexity of demands on space • Some national trends and examples • The need for an integrated perspective: • Land and sea are closely interconnected • Interdependent impacts • The international context of the sea

6. Chapter 2: Spatial planning on which basis? Securing the necessary baseline information • Stocktaking • What is it? • Taking stock of the coast and the sea: • Stocktake of coastal and marine systems • Stocktake of systems interchanges • Stocktake of spatially relevant impacts • Stocktake of the administrative framework • From stocktaking to assessment • How to rate trends and impacts? • Developing a needs-based planning approach • The importance of clear planning aims and objectives („Visions“) • Data needs • Available data and information • Collecting and exchanging data (results of the PlanCoast GIS group)

7. Chapter 3: How to carry out spatial planning • Establishing the framework • From stocktakes to policy frameworks to implementation and control • The special role of monitoring and respective data needs • Preparing spatial plans: core issues • Practical considerations: • Appropriateness of scale and delineation of planning space • Integration of land and sea • Maps • The planning process • Who to involve how and when? • Access to information • Outcomes and outputs • Process monitoring and timescale • Responsibilities: Who is tasked with what? • Practical examples at different scales

8. Chapter 4: Implementation of plans, monitoring and control • The regulatory/legal context for implementation • General information from the countries • Problems with implementation • Essential prerequisites for successful implementation • The importance of context: what works in one country may not work in another • Participation and acceptance • Participation as a key driver of acceptance • Public participation in decision-making • Examples of participative processes

9. Chapter 5: Supporting processes • Supporting decision-making structures at a national and • regional level • The role of international projects and processes • EU Green Paper • HELCOM • UNEP-MAP • Black Sea Commission etc. • Integrating different decision-making processes and • generating involvement • Finances

10. Chapter 6: Summary of recommendations • …..

11. Annex • National reports • Adria-report • Detailed case studies • Important: This structure is just a mental aid and • can be adapted! • Issues-based approach • Every chapter to have case study examples! • Handbook rather than desktop study!

12. Structure of Report Chapters • Synthesis of State of Art • in respective • PLANCOAST countries / regions: • Description • Problems • Analysis • Similarities • Differences • Advantages • Conclusions • (taken from National Reports and • other sources) • Related samples taken from a • PlanCoast Reports / Pilot Projects: • The case of information collection • in Emilia Romagna • Functioning of ICZM National Committee • in Romania • Illegal Housing in Poland • Conflict Resolution via Zoning in MV Short Recommendations to Spatial Planners (i.e. Checklists) Conclusions / Demands to Policy Makers

13. Back to you: • Where to you see your case study contribution to the • transnational study? • Where do you see a specific contribution/lesson/example • from your national study?

14. Structure of National Reports • Executive Summary • General Description of Spatial Planning System in the CountryEvolution of spatial planning in country, responsible agencies, planning framework, public involvement, control, urban /land /transport policies,environmental protection, intro to coastal zones / maritime areas,advantages / gaps • Specificities of Spatial Planning in Coastal Zonesmain problems / conflicts, planning in coastal zones (urban, countryside,transport), advantages / gaps • Integrated Coastal Zone Managementimplementation of ICZM strategy, advantages / gaps • Maritime Spatial Planningsea uses / trends / main conflicts, main problems, state of art of maritime spatial planning, legal basis, element / contents of maritime spatial plans, procedures / responsibilities, coordination and resolving of conflicts, land/sea integration, practical examples • Linkages to International Policycompliance to EU recommendations, other international organisations (HELCOM, MAP, Black Sea Commission) • Recommendations to be developed jointly

15. The Transnational PlanCoast Study: Pilot Projects Kasia Scibior sustainable projects

16. Website: complete documentation Transnational Report: chosen aspects only!Main theme / Main problem / Best practice / Lesson learned

17. Example 1: Portonovo beach • Problem: Long tradition of • illegal cave dwelling. Recently, • cliff started to collapse, posing • danger to people and their property. • Dwellers demand expensive • protection measures from the state. • Cave dwellers have a cultural and touristic value, • Besides they are the richest community members • - cannot be kicked out. • Solution: dialogue with the dwellers. Searching • for compromise, time and space phased solutions.

18. Example 1: Portonovo beach Dealing with illegal practice • Problem: Long tradition of • illegal cave dwelling. Recently, • cliff started to collapse, posing • danger to people and their property. • Dwellers demand expensive • protection measures from the state. • Cave dwellers have a cultural and touristic value, • Besides they are the richest community members • - cannot be kicked out. • Solution: dialogue with the dwellers. Searching • for compromise, time and space phased solutions.

19. Example 2: Emilia Romagna GIS • Problem: DG Environment • wants to prepare a ‚Coastal • Defence Catalogue‘ of the • existing coastal information. • Data from many different administrations and • private companies such as enrgy providers is needed but they • don’t have a digital database • not always willing to share information • Solution: creating win-win situations. • Offering the product (catalogue) • in exchange for information • WEB-GIS as an instrument.

20. Example 2: Emilia Romagna GIS Data collection • Problem: DG Environment • wants to prepare a ‚Coastal • Defence Catalogue‘ of the • existing coastal information. • Data from many different administrations and • private companies such as enrgy providers is needed but they • don’t have a digital database • not always willing to share information • Solution: creating win-win situations. • Offering the product (catalogue) • in exchange for information • WEB-GIS as an instrument.

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