INTERREG III B CADSES project part-financed by the European Union
Coordinator: Ministry for Transport, Building and Regional Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Wismar Bay on the German Baltic Sea coast is an area where one-sided and space consuming demands of tourists had led to visible negative impacts on the condition of the coast. As part of the BaltCoast project, a study was carried out in order to identify all nature conservation and tourism demands. A comparison of these demands showed that confiicts were overrated and could often be solved through spatial or seasonal differentiation. It became apparent that both tourism and nature protection were influenced by seasonal variation.
Coordinator: Maritime Office in Gdynia, www.umgdy.gov.pl
Contact: Anna Stelmaszyk-Świerczyńska <dyrtech@umdy.gov.pl>
Subcontractor: Maritime Institute Gdańsk, Juliusz Gajewski <juliusz.gajewski@im.gda.pl>
Among all EU countries, Poland is one of the forerunners in introducing Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) legislation. Since 2003 there is a legal possibility to create maritime spatial plans in Poland, based on article 37a of the Act on Maritime Areas of Poland and Maritime Administration.
PlanCoast Partner Maritime Office in Gdynia in cooperation with the Maritime Institute in Gdańsk prepared the first Polish maritime spatial plan Gulf of Gdańsk/ Pomorskie Voievodship. The aim was to intensify the merit-based discussion on the subject and provide methodological experience as input into the planned more specific MSP legislation.
Planning area
Gulf of Gdańsk in the Pomorskie region (Central-North Poland) was predestined to become the site of the first Polish maritime spatial plan, since it is characterised by the greatest intensity of uses and conflicts in the whole Polish sea area. Read the whole article »
Coordinator: Regional Spatial Planning Office WBPP Słupsk, www.wbpp.slupsk.pl, www.plancoast.pl
Contact: Krzysztof Wojcieszyk <k.wojcieszyk@wbpp.slupsk.pl>
Downloads: Mikoszewo pilot project presentation 11.2007.ppt (Polish language), Mikoszewo picture gallery,Stegna regional ICZM conference
Mikoszewo village is a part of Stegna municipality (Pomorskie region, North of Poland), at the base of the Vistula spit, which is where Vistula, the biggest Polish river mouths. The whole area of the municipality is covered by the NATURA 2000 Special Bird Protection Area, the so called Seagull Bank (Mewia Łacha). Apart from that, the narrow form of the peninsula is part of the coastal technical belt which undergoes state management and strict protection rules supervised by the Maritime Office in Gdynia. The unique dune landscapes border directly with the Mikoszewo bathing area.
The municipal governement is well aware of the sensitivity, but also touristic potential of this unique piece of land. Therefore they asked the Regional Spatial Planning Office in Słupsk to prepare a municipal spatial plan focused on revitalisation aspects and the touristical function.
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Coordinator: Regional Spatial Planning Office WBPP Słupsk, www.wbpp.slupsk.pl, www.plancoast.pl
Contact person: Krzysztof Wojcieszyk <k.wojcieszyk@wbpp.slupsk.pl>
The village Dębina in Pomorskie Voievodship (North of Poland) lays within the borders of the Ustka coastal municipality. Ustka itself is an established Polish sea-side resort. Ustka municipality is rapidly urbanizing, and at the same time having a unique cultural landscape with the characteristic timber-framed architecture and historic settlement structures.The surroundings of Dębina are also very valuable in natural terms: from East it borders on the Słowiński National Park and Biosphere Reserve, from West the Gardno Lake and from the South to the Słupia Valley Landscape Park. Read the whole article »
Coordinator: Regional Development Center Koper,www.rrc-kp.si
Contact: Slavko Mezek <slavko.mezek@rrc-kp.si>
Download: Primorska interactive coastal database
The reason for introducing integrated maritime spatial planning (IMSP) in the Northern Adriatic is the need to coordinate the growing contradictory development trends and global as well as national policy directions.
The Slovenian coastal area is geographically very limited. The coast is only 47 km long and the territorial sea encompasses 180 km2. It is a part of the shallow Gulf of Trieste, which is maximum 50 m deep (the Slovenian part is even shallower - up to 35 m).
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Coordinator: Regional Development Center Koper, www.rrc-kp.si
Contact: Slavko Mezek <slavko.mezek@rrc-kp.si>
The second Slovenian pilot project is an attempt to transform and sustainably improve aspects of the coastal development of the municipalities Koper, Izola and Piran.
Project results from a conclusion that it is necessary to determine the coastal zone as a special spatial quality that should to be accessible to everybody on equal terms. The unique land and sea interconnection landscape should be protected as a recognizable local identity.
The basic aim of the project was to show characteristics of this coastal zone, draw attention to contents important for (marine) spatial planning and set measures to define the width of such a coastal zone. Read the whole article »
Coordinator: DG Environment Regione Emilia Romagna
Contact person: Luisa Perini <lperini@regione.emilia-romagna.it>
Downloads: Web-based Ferrara Coast Information System (Italian language)
The Coast Information System (SIC) in Emilia-Romagna was implemented as part of the EU Cadsealand Project (2004-2006) in order to support the Integrated Coastal Zone Management programme carried out by Emilia-Romagna regional authority during the last 4 years. The database design was referred to the guidelines issued by European Commission within EUROSION programme. Currently SIC contains most important topics referable to the physical coastal system (geology, geomorphology, land use, etc) and tools for coastal risk evaluation. Within Plancoast project the GIS procedures and set of other data will be refined and aquired. In the second stage this data will be applied in the second Plancoast pilot project - Ferrara Provincial Territorial Plan (WP4 Maritime Planning).
Ferrara coastal area lies in the Po delta plain and is characterized by low topography with large areas below sea level, intense morphodinamic evolution, but at the same time an extremely high human pressure and intensive touristic exploitation of the coast.
Coordinator: DG Environment Regione Emilia Romagna
Contact: Katia Raffaelli <kraffaelli@regione.emilia-romagna.it>
In addition to the Ferrara Coastal GIS database, the Emilia Romagna regional governement carried out another PlanCoast pilot study: the implementation of Emilia Romagna Regional ICZM Guidelines in Ferrara Province.
It was a cooperation of DG Environmental and DG Spatial Planning. The goal was to implement the provincial and municipal spatial plans by defining:
Coordinator: Municipality of Ancona, Regione Marche
Contact: Paolo Recanatini <paolo.recanatini@comune.ancona.it>
In 1920’s the first urban plans of the Palombina district of Ancona were made. They designed an urban development after the garden town model, marked by residential structures immersed in the green structures and linked with the recreational and bathing facilities of the beach. Unfortunately, this model was only partially realised.
Nowadays the Palombina beach consists of infrastructure and bathing establishments linked between in a very chaotic way without any continious concept. Since the beach is wedged tightly between the harbour, motorway, railway and the city airport, it has very low environmental and recreational qualities (dirt, garbage, noise, air and water pollution).
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Coordinator: ECAT Tiranë
Contact: Marieta Mima <mima@ecat-tirana.org>
The Narta lagoon is located south of the river Vjosa in the Vlora district / South-West Albania. It is the largest natural lagoon in Albania. The Vjosa-Narta area offers alltogether very favourable conditions for the development of tourism. At the moment main uses are still agriculture, salt production, fishing, and commercial activities. Resulting form the growing human pressure on the area, there is an increase of pollution load in wastewater discharged in the streams, rivers, and lagoons.
Lagoons are closed ecosystems, and therefore extremely vulnerable in ecological terms. At the same time they are a breeding habitat for economically relevant species of fish. Especially the agricultural residues and increasing salinisation pose to them serious threats. Read the whole article »