Abstract
The planning of nautical tourism development and especially, the planning of its supporting infrastructure development, is important topic of the maritime spatial planning. The focus of research is the integration of multicriteria analysis and stakeholders within concept modeling that will provide support to the spatial planning specialists in the design of plans related to the development of anchorage capacities for small vessels. It examines economic, environmental, ecological, social, and civil engineering concerns related to the use of coastal water. It is a complex and ill-defined civil engineering problem because of multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, numerous conflicting goals and criteria, huge quantities of information and data, limited resources, etc. The research is concentrated on an integral approach to sustainable decision-making within maritime spatial planning by the modeling decision support concept to the processes of identification, validation, comparison, and the selection of locations for anchorage construction, based on multicriteria methods, goal analysis, and the logic of the decision support system. The concept is tested on the island of Šolta, Croatia, and has been proven as being an applicable, consistent, efficient, and effective methodology for the planning of the anchorage locations.
Highlights
The encouragement for this research was primarily derived from the Directive 2014/89/EU of the European Parliament and the Council [1] from 23 July 2014, which establishes a framework for maritime spatial planning (MSP) in the EU
The main goal of the research is to design a model of decision support concept (DSC), in combination with the multicriteria analysis and methods, as an approach that will provide qualitative and sustainable decision-making within maritime spatial planning when it comes to the construction of anchorage locations
It has been shown that the proposed approach is adaptable, as it enables the inclusion of a variety of stakeholders and their different manners through the whole body of the planning process, while respecting professional, scientific, and research knowledge
Summary
The encouragement for this research was primarily derived from the Directive 2014/89/EU of the European Parliament and the Council [1] from 23 July 2014, which establishes a framework for maritime spatial planning (MSP) in the EU. In addition to the abovementioned, this research was intended to form an approach that will be functional and that will enable sustainable and inclusive decision-making in the planning of anchorage locations, as one of the components of MSP. To deal with such a complex process, and resulting in broad document, this research is focused only on anchorages as one of its many components. The proposed approach is related to supporting-planning processes, and to the deriving of such a specific plan that can be demonstrated and tested, and that can be adapted and applied to other components of MSP
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