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Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a challenge to spatial planning: on vision-building and decision-making: an empirical evaluation of applied planning in Germany
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Universität Bremen, Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit (artec)
Abstract "Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states are urged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived fro... view more
"Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states are urged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived from this model project. The most prominent rationale of the criteria is a request to reassess existing spatial planning procedures and routines, in order to make them more participative and to strengthen and diversify the role of civil society actors.
However, before ICZM was promoted, many European countries had already developed more or less
complex features to include a growing number of actors in various stages of spatial planning
processes: In concept building, decision making, and implementation. As a consequence, the EU
recommendations have not been unanimously appreciated. One of the main arguments against them claimed that already existing schemes and procedures (i) provide a wide array of participative
elements, and that (ii) participation has thus been a core element of spatial planning, even before ICZM appeared on the scene.
Against this background, our study evaluated the performance of the German spatial planning system, in terms of integrating and co-ordinating different stakes into planning procedures of large scale infrastructure projects in the German coastal zone. The mechanisms for ensuring participation were assessed as well. The research was part of the development of a German National Strategy for Integrated Coastal Zone Management, a reaction to the EU recommendation. Based on the assumption that the established German spatial planning and approval system fulfils a decisive role in environmental regulation, regional economic development and the co-ordination of sectoral policies, the connection between ICZM and spatial planning will be discussed, with reference to the theoretical discussion about sustainable governance.
The study thus helps to understand the prerequisites for participative management, and the relation between formal and informal administrative, as well as political, processes in countries with highly developed administrations and tightly applied regulations for decision-making. To introduce sustainability-oriented governance concepts, such as ICZM, in countries like Germany requires the government to combine instruments of spatial planning with participatory forms of vision building, in order to create new governance arrangements." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
EU; sustainability; Federal Republic of Germany; management; environmental policy; decision making; environmental protection; Europe; coastal region; evaluation; spatial planning; participation; empirical research; costs
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Method
applied research; evaluation; empirical; planning procedure
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
City
Bremen
Page/Pages
26 p.
Series
artec-paper, 147
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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