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Local coastal governance assessment development: coastal governance framework reporting

2020; Volume: 54; Linguagem: Inglês

10.22616/esrd.2020.54.012

2255-9930

Raimonds Ernšteins, Maija Štokmane, Arturs Pudans,

Cruise Tourism Development and Management

Coastal governance practice at the local level in Latvia has various shortages and the reasons behind that are several, including, that the coastal municipalities have neither sufficient coastal information and understanding, nor integrative planning tradition and active stakeholder's participation experience.The aim is to study to what extent and how municipal coastal governance (MCG) has been developed and accordingly performed towards effective pro-environmental and pro-coastal policies, thus analysing the coastal governance dimensions -governance content, process and its documents, main stakeholders understanding and contribution -in Jurmala municipality as a chosen coastal pilot territory, since being especially sensitive area at the Latvian coastline.The summary results of case study research (document studies, observation and stakeholder's interviews) suggest, that the municipality still has limited focus on sustainable coastal governance -in general, underdeveloped internationally acknowledged integrated coastal management (ICM) implementation approaches and related requirement on various basic ICM capacities development.There are neither specially designed coastal planning and management system (ICM sectorial/cross-sectorial approach), nor well developed ICM integration into statutory municipal development planning process and products (ICM integration approach).Existent MCG is based on long existing traditional approach of former and formal sector-based municipal development planning with limited cross-sectorial perspectives and linking.Taking into account also climate change adaptation challenges, new understanding and new approaches, including mixed ICM approach and also, eventually, a range of innovative coastal governance instruments.The study is done in the framework of the research-and-development approach aimed also to develop recommendations for the improvement of the local coastal governance practise, e.g.testing of MCG framework and also testing to be pre-and post-planning document -Municipal Coastal Governance Outlook -as designed for MCG overview and assessment with later public discussion and stakeholder MCG agreement as well as for integrative planning as could be serving as basic missing integration instrument.