Abstract
There are recognized in Latvia the lack of locally based coastal socio-ecological research knowledge and its interpretation into municipal safety and development planning from one side as well as also only land-side oriented and separate sectorial development interests based coastal municipalities’ governance/planning practice from other side. Coastal governance practice development problems solution at the local level are to be seen at both ends of governance cycle – coastal situation evaluation (e.g. science) and policy design and implementation. Overall objective is to create, apply/test and use applicable interface system for integrated coastal science transfer into integrated coastal management (ICM), and so altogether developing whole and flexible integrated coastal governance (ICG) cycle, esp. at the local municipal level, but also coping with vertical integration with other national and international governance levels, as well as horizontal integration with other municipal development sectors. ICG complex interface system has been started to develop step-wise during realization of various research and development projects and particularly by designing and testing both complementary thematical and territorial approaches based municipal indicator systems (IS). Approaches were applied as different cross-sectorial municipal IS (coastal, climate change governance, coastal risk etc.) and, interrelatedly, eventual whole municipal development IS. There was designed and implemented Sustainable development governance IS proposal for Saulkrasti municipality, being used now for supervision of mandatory municipal long term planning document – Sustainable Development Strategy. Further proposals for coastal indicators observatory system for sealand border area administrative territories has to be developed, respecting all types of coastal components as for highly specific socio-ecological systems in the Baltic Sea region area.
Highlights
Integrated coastal management (ICM) has been long standing recommended research/model practice and EU requirements approach and even principle for coastal areas development, but still being comparatively new tradition as barely used in the country and even region
Principal integration approach is necessary at any step of the process to be realized – from coastal science to municipal monitoring and sustainability indicators into integrated coastal governance (ICG)
Integrated coastal governance as principal coastal governance approach has been actively developed in EU, incl. by voluntary developing international and national strategies and, has been setting coresponding requirements for national/regional planning for all coastal member countries
Summary
Integrated coastal management (ICM) has been long standing recommended research/model practice and EU requirements approach and even principle for coastal areas development, but still being comparatively new tradition as barely used in the country and even region. Based upon usage of indicator system, the approach of assessment and reflection of specialized sustainability aspects was approbated during our R&D projects from thematical and territorial viewpoint as to be seen in the chapters From thematic viewpoint, it has resulted in elaboration of indicator systems for evaluation of: sustainability of Latvian coast, by adapting EU DEDUCE coastal indicator system to the national level circumstances of Latvia; Climate change adaptation strategy implementation in the Salacgrīva municipality; description of specific cross-sector of economics – the governance of health and environmental-friendly life cycle of food (food systems governance) in Salacgrīva. Good adaptive SCG shall have to possess both, top-down, and bottom-up, from local municipal level and public monitoring build, indicator systems, being characterized by horizontal integration and vertical integration across governance levels and respecting specific characteristics of coastal area via some developed typology, using physical and socio-economical characteristics, as for specific socio-ecological system, requiring comparison with wider reference territories for obtaining real impacts of/to sea-land border area.
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