Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe state of the art and current approaches

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Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe
state of the art and current approaches

• Brian Shipman

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ICZM

• About 30 years old
• Primarily a response to rapid post-war coastal
  development and tourism
• But new pressures and issues

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ICZM?

• an integrated or joined-up approach towards the
  many different interests
• harmonises the different policies and
  decision-making structures
• brings together coastal stakeholders, for
  concerted action towards common goals
• Integrates different activities to look at the
  coast in a holistic way.

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ICZM?

• Horizontal integration between sectors and
  across borders
• Vertical integration between levels of
  government state/region/local
• a social contract

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ICZM?

• a social contract to achieve the optimal solution
  for the coast
• No single ICZM Solution
• Applies to any geographic scale

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ICZM the European Perspective
2001

1. A Broad "Holistic" Perspective
2. A Long Term Perspective
3. Adaptive Management
4. Local Specificity
5. Working with Natural Processes
6. Participatory Planning
7. Support Involvement of all Relevant
   Administrative Bodies
8. Use of a Combination of Instruments

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ICZM the European Perspective
Undertake a national inventory of legislation,
institutions and actors involved in the planning
and management of the coastal zone to develop a
national strategy to promote ICZM by 2006
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ICZM the European Perspective
Progress? very little
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Issues
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New technologies
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New technologies the future is development-led
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Exploitation
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Exploitation
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Risk - natural
-100 million tonnes of sediment per annum
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Risk - natural
Protect? Accommodate? Retreat?
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Risk - natural
Earthquakes in Europe and adjoining areas
(19642001)
Messina Tsunami 1908 which cost approximately 10
thousand lives
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Risks - human
Oil spills in European regional seas (20002004)
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Risks - human
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Development and changing land use
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Development and changing land use
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Land cover change within the 10 km coastal zone
of 17 of European countries (19902000)
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Barriers to ICZM
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Barriers to ICZM

• Governance rigidities the new coastal squeeze

New Frontier?
National Governments Marine Agencies Marine
Sectoral interests BINGOs
Local Government Regional Agencies Communities
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Barriers to ICZM

• ICZM

Local Government Regional Agencies Communities
National Governments Marine Agencies Marine
Sectoral interests BINGOs
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Barriers to ICZM

• Governance rigidities the new coastal squeeze
• Sectoral inflexibility
• Project time scales
• No legal duty or resources

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ICZM the way forward
5 million visitors per annum 2 billion
CORNWALL , UK Integrated Beach Management
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ICZM the way forward
CORNWALL , UK Integrated Beach Management
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ICZM the way forward
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ICZM the way forward

• Share experience
• eg spatial planning (Germany), CAMPs (PAP/RAC,
  Slovenia), GRDP (Marche)
• across INTERREG programmes

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ICZM the way forward

• Be clear about what you are trying to achieve
• SMART targets
• Five steps.

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ICZM the way forward

1. Visualise it Mediterranean slope of tomorrow,
   communicate a shared vision, scenario planning
   what if? Lead but dont direct

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ICZM the way forward

• Measure it learn from the discipline of SEA
  methodologies, but keep it simple!

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ICZM the way forward

1. Achieve it nothing succeeds like success,
   small, easy projects to engage stakeholders..

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ICZM the way forward

1. Mainstream it link securely to mainstream
   agendas Lisbon Gothenburg, Cohesion, Water
   Framework Directive etc.

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ICZM the way forward

1. Secure it provide a strong spatial planning
   framework on land and sea

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ICZM the way forward

1. Visualise it Mediterranean slope of tomorrow,
   communicate a shared vision, scenario planning
   what if? Lead but dont direct
2. Measure it learn from the discipline of SEA
   methodologies, but keep it simple!
3. Achieve it nothing succeeds like success,
   small, easy projects to engage stakeholders..
4. Mainstream it link securely to mainstream
   agendas Lisbon Gothenburg, Cohesion, Water
   Framework Directive etc.
5. Secure it provide a strong spatial planning
   framework on land and sea

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Thank You Brian Shipman bshipman_at_cornwall.gov.uk