FOSTERING INTEGRATED GOVERNANCE FOR THE JOINT SUSTAINABLE USE OF HUMAN AND NATURAL CAPITAL IN THE NEAR SHORE ZONE
BALTIC SEA2LAND
The project Baltic Sea2Land equips public authorities with the navigator tool that helps harmonise land and marine planning and balance initiatives that impact coastal development.
DURATION:
01.01.2023. – 31.12.2025.
PROJECT TOTAL BUDGET:
3 447 155,80 EUR (ERDF funding 2 757 724,64 EUR)
KURZEME PLANNING REGION BUDGET:
249 752,00 EUR (ERDF funding 199 801,60 EUR)
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- Lead Partner – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia (Latvia)
- Saaremaa Municipality (Estonia)
- Tallinn University (Estonia)
- Regional Council of Southwest Finland (Finland)
- Baltic Environmental Forum Germany (Germany)
- City of Fehmarn (Germany)
- Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – HELCOM (Finland)
- Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (Latvia)
- Kurzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
- Association “Klaipeda Region” (Lithuania)
- Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
- State Regional Development Agency (VASAB) (Latvia)
- The Association of Sea Cities and Municipalities (Poland)
SUMMARY:
The complexity of land-sea interactions (LSI) and overlapping jurisdictions of various public authorities calls for multi-level governance (MLG) to balance different interests and drivers in coastal areas in order to achieve European Green Deal (EGD) goals and Sustainable Blue Economy (SBE). MLG is needed for integrated planning to consider coastal communities, culture, environmental and economic interests. Integrated planning is often obstructed by unbalanced voices of different sectors and stakeholders, overlapping jurisdictions of various authorities, complexity of LSI, inefficient coordination and non-collaboration. Public authorities together with SBE sectors can be compared to a Greek ship (trireme) with the many stakeholders acting as the ship crew – rowers operating oars, deck crew dealing with sails and helmsman steering the ship – each with their own task. Somehow, they all need to work together to avoid crashing and to navigate to their intended destination. Thus, there should be a guiding system for our ship – a navigator. In our project we will create a solution based on previous project results – the Sea2Land Navigator – a tailored guidance and decision making-supporting platform for public authorities and SBE stakeholders. The Sea2Land Navigator will help balance interests to aid viable coastal development and sustainable use of human and natural capital in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and foster integrated governance via multi-dimensional collaborations.
Kurzeme Planning Region will be involved in this project by coordinating the measures to increase the capacity of the project partners, as well as testing the use of the ‘Sea2Land Navigator’ online platform in the development of the Kurzeme Region Coastal Thematic Plan.
Within the framework of the project, attracting experts from various fields, the Thematic Plan of the Kurzeme Coast will be developed, which will identify the challenges of coastal development and seek solutions to existing user conflicts.
Project is financed with the contribution of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region.
Project Webpage: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/balticsea2land/
Information prepared by:
Ligita Kokaine
Project Manager
e-mail: ligita.kokaine@kurzemesregions.lv
phone: + 371 26586604
