Systems approach to eastern Baltic coastal zone management

Baltranaitė, Eglė; Povilanskas, Ramūnas; Dučinskas, Kęstutis; Ernšteins, Raimonds; Tõnisson, Hannes

doi:10.3390/w12113102

Use this url to cite publication: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14172/4993

Systems approach to eastern Baltic coastal zone management

Type of publication

Straipsnis Web of Science ir Scopus duomenų bazėje / Article in Web of Science and Scopus database (S1)

Type of document

type::text::journal::journal article::research article

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
Baltranaitė, Eglė	Jūros tyrimų institutas / Marine Research Institute	LT
Povilanskas, Ramūnas	Jūros tyrimų institutas / Marine Research Institute	LT
Dučinskas, Kęstutis	Informatikos ir statistikos katedra / Department of Informatics and Statistics	LT
Ernšteins, Raimonds	University of Latvia	LV
Tõnisson, Hannes	Tallinn University	EE

Title

Systems approach to eastern Baltic coastal zone management

[en]

Publisher

Basel : MDPI

Publisher (trusted)

MDPI

Date Issued

Date	Volume	Issue	Start Page	End Page
2020-10-26	vol. 12	iss. 11, art. no. 3102	1	16

Is part of

Water

Research Area

Field of Science

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Vandenynų ir jūrų ištekliai / Life Below Water (14)

Taika, teisingumas ir stiprios institucijos / Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (16)

Partnerystė įgyvendinant tikslus / Partnership for the Goals (17)

Keywords (en)

Abstract (en)

Relying on the results of multivariate analysis of the re-analysis case studies from the BaltCoast project, specific features of integrated coastal management (ICM) approaches in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation are highlighted in this paper. Eleven Eastern Baltic ICM case studies have been re-analyzed in-depth, which was the main focus of the present paper, covering a wide range of coastal landscapes, themes, policy issues, and ICM approaches. Five principal components explaining 84.86% of the total variance of ICM factor scores have been elicited by calculating rotation sums of squared loadings: (1) Stakeholder Involvement; (2) Research Base; (3) Planning Consistency; (4) Policy Environment, and (5) Development of Plans/Strategies. A truly dedicated involvement of a wide range of stakeholders throughout all process stages showed to be critical for further successful advance of ICM processes and principles based on the systems approach in the Baltic States and the Russian Federation.