Cross-Border MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

ADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANningwww.adriplan.eu Project co financed
by the European Union (DG MARE)www.adriplan.euADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANning www.adriplan.euADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANning
Cross-border planning in Adriatic Ionian MSP.
The case of Adriplan project
Prof. Francesco Musco
Dr. Elena Gissi, Dr. Federica Appiotti, Ms Irene Bianchi, Ms Denis Maragno, Mr Alberto Innocenti
Università Iuav of Venice, Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments
Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Maritime Spatial Planning (EMMCMSP)
Balitic Scope – Kick-off event
Riga (Latvia) 29 September, 2015

by the European Union (DG MARE)
Cross-border coordination
9
PUBLIC BODIES
6 RESEARCH
BODIES
1 PRIVATE
BODY
PARTNERS
+ 17 OBSERVERS
TOWARD
TRANSBOUNDARY
COORDINATION

Cross-border coordination
Consortium
9
PUBLIC
BODIES
planning, environment,
tourism, transportation,
energy
6 RESEARCH
BODIES
planning, GIS, ecology,
marine biology
1 PRIVATE
BODY
EXTERNAL
EXPERTS
marine biology,
economics, law,
etc.
SECTORAL
ORGANIZATION
energy, tourism,
transportation
……PUBLIC
BODIES
national,
regional,
local
NGOs
Scientific
knowledge/
data/
information
Sectoral data/
information
Local
Knowledge/
information
Priorities
Objectives
Information
Support
for MSP

Setting of Maritime Spatial Planning in Southern Europe
2014 – MSP Directive
(2014/89/EU)
2016 – Competent
authorities
2021 – Maritime Spatial
Management Plans
ADRIPLAN 2013-15
(DG MARE 2012/25)

(ADRIPLAN, Gissi et al, under preparation)
1) Maritime Spatial Planning as a tool for promoting a rational
allocation of maritime uses and for balancing the demand for
economic development of maritime activities with the need to
preserve the integrity marine ecosystems (Ehler & Douvere,
2009; Unesco 2012; Musco et. al., 2014);
1) Directive on MSP (2014/89/EU) to be ratified within 2016,
Member States will have to identify competent authorities and
to develop trans-boundary maritime spatial management
plans within 2021;
1) Introducing MSP in Mediterranean requires a relevant efforts
both in terms of geopolitical approach and in terms of linkages
among very different existing planning systems accordingly a
cross borders approach;

(ADRIPLAN, Gissi et al, under preparation)
4) Trans-boundary nature of Maritime Spatial Planning
- ecosystem-based approach to MSP (Dir. 2008/56/EC) implies the
necessity to stimulate neighbouring countries to embed their
maritime spatial plans in the broader, regional context that takes
into account ecosystem issues beyond their national boundaries
- a strong effort to overcome legal barriers imposed by
administrative borders and international framework agreements.
- Cross borders planning actions in the AIR (Adriatic Ionian Region .
EUSAIR implementation)

-
(ADRIPLAN, Gissi, Musco et al, under preparation)
ADRIPLAN Methodology
Methodology
• Acquisition of data and
information
• Identification of management
and planning priorities
• Analysis of site-specific
dinamycs
• Interpretation of use-use and
environment-use conflicts and
synergies
• Support in drafting planning
proposals including a crossing
borders actions portfolio

ADRIPLAN pre-planning: dsesigning borders!
Establishing boundaries for trasborder
MSP considering jurisdictions

ADRIPLAN methodology – coexistence among uses
Main findings and problems
- Identification of transboundary areas with
potential conflicts in space and time
- Evident diifferences between territorial and
high waters
- Results obtained are strictly dependent on
data collected (and gaps)
- Future projections of maritime uses are not
always spatially explicitly
- The AIR includes two states not belonging to
EU (Albania and Montenegro – partially
Bosnia Erzegovina) and also the recent
annexion of Croatia still suffers of relevant
cross borders policy conflicts (IT/HR/SL);
Analysis of most intensively used maritime areas,
with coexistence in space and time
Baseline: 2014, Future scenario: 2020

ADRIPLAN methodology – cumulative impacts
Analysis of cumulative impacts on marine
environmental components deriving from
maritime uses and related pressures
Baseline: 2014, Future scenario: 2020
Main findings
- Impacts depend on the distribution of
Environmental Components which are sensitive
to Maritime Uses
- Not all marine areas are impacted in the same
way (hotspots of impacts)
- The geometry of the results depends on the
input data of the analysis (maritime uses,
environmental components)
- Improvements to overcome data gaps 
demand for science
- Involvement of experts on the entire AIM as a
key challenge

Pilot actions
at Focus Area Level
ADRIPLAN methodology - interpretation
Strategic proposal
for AIM
v
v

ANALYSIS
INTERPRETATION
Energy – interpretation from pivotal uses

INTERPRETATION: focus
Energy – interpretation from pivotal uses

ANALYSIS
INTERPRETATION
Fishery&Aquaculture – interpretation from pivotal uses

Fishery&Aquaculture – interpretation from pivotal uses

ANALYSIS
INTERPRETATION
Maritime Transport&Tourism– interpretation from pivotal uses

Maritime Transport&Tourism– interpretation from pivotal uses

ANALYSIS
INTERPRETATION
Environmental protection– interpretation from pivotal uses

INTERPRETATION
Environmental protection– interpretation from pivotal uses

ANALYSIS
INTERPRETATION
Sand extraction & military areas– interpretation from pivotal uses

INTERPRETATION
Sand extraction & military areas– interpretation from pivotal uses

Typology
Large Enterprise, Small Medium Enterprise, Public
Administration, Economic Interest Association, Civil Society
Organizations, Research/Universities, Military, Marine
Protected Areas, Projects
Geographical relevance
International, national, regional and local
ADRIPLAN scope
the Northern Adriatic (focus area 1)
the Southern Adriatic and Northern Ionian (focus area 2)
the whole Macro-region
Marine and maritime sectors in cross-sectoral and cross-border
discussions, meetings, tables
ADRIPLAN methodology - Stakeholders involvement
Stakeholders contribution
• Data & information
• Identification of conflicts and
synergies
• MSP objectives and needs
• Visioning
• Identification of pivotal
themes for the Focus Areas
• Inputs for Planning Options
aimed at optimizing the
rational use of coastal and
marine spaces

DESIGN
STRATEGIC
PROPOSAL
FOR THE AIM

Main issues
- General goal is to support the implementation of Blue Growth objectives, and
specifically of EUSAIR & MSP accordingly Maritime Spatial Planning 2014/89/EU;
- Considering primarily transboundary issues/trasboundary governance framework
- Identification of different types of management areas, characterized by specific
management objectives reflecting on contextual use-use and environment-use
conditions and coexistences.
Types of management areas
- 1) Consider the coexistence of multiple maritime uses in sensitive marine
environments, transboundary, intensively used. Management options based on
transboundary governance according future demand of space;
- 2) Located in territorial waters, so the governance system should
- consider National legal framework. Intensively used and with environmental
challenges;
- 3) areas which assume a great importance for the delivery of ecosystems goods
and services for the AIM
Strategic proposal for the AIR

A crossing borders actions portfolio

• Modify the
position of the
cable
• Deploy the cable
under the seabed
• Modify the land-
sea connection in
the eastern part

• Define temporary
preacutionary
measures in the
construction
phase
• Identify fishing
attention areas
• Consider
interactions with
changing routes

A cross border planning scheme for AIR
- Introduction of MSP requires a strong commitments of regional and national
government in the AIR accordingly
- A strong interaction with local planning systems accordingly a transboundary
perspective is fundamental;
Future steps to be successfully transboundary/cross-borders MSP planning
- Future mandate by the National and Regional authorities
- Including MSP in the National Planning Systems (a voluntary based approch is not
enough);
- Overcome the MSP tendency to be a kind of sectorial planning;
- Common language Planners/Maritime Scientists;
- Following with the implementation of European Directive on MSP;
- MSP process tailored accordinlgy to the legal framework and institutional mandate
- Variable of planning intensity and scale
Some considerations and next steps in the perspective of
cross – borders planning

by the European Union (DG MARE)www.adriplan.euADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANning www.adriplan.euADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANning
Thank you
Innovative and Frontier Environmental Planning research group
at University Iuav of Venice
Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments
Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Maritime Spatial Planning
www.iuav,it/climatechange email: climatechange@iuav.it
www.iuav.it/msp email: msp@iuav.it

Cross-Border MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (20)

Viewers also liked

Viewers also liked (14)

Similar to Cross-Border MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Similar to Cross-Border MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Region (20)

More from Pan Baltic Scope / Baltic SCOPE

More from Pan Baltic Scope / Baltic SCOPE (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Cross-Border MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Editor's Notes