Towards a Marine Good Environmental Status (GES) in Montenegro Spatial Analysis on Length of Coastline Occupied by Human-made Structures Logos en anglais, avec versions courtes des logos ONU Environnem ent et PAM La version longue des logos ONU Environnem ent et PAM doit être utilisée dans les docum ents ou juridique Ls.a v ersio ncour te des logos est destin e tous les produit sde com m unicati otonurn s vers le public. Author: Željka Čurović, architect and landscape planner, Montenegro Graphic design: Old School S.P. Cover image: Examples of defining the type of coastline along the main road in the Bay of Kotor The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. This study was prepared by PAP/RAC, SPA/RAC, UNEP/MAP, and the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of Montenegro within the GEF Adriatic Project and supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Spatial Analysis on Length of Coastline Occupied by Human-made Structures Table of contents 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Previous analyses ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Montenegro coastal area ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2 Method and input data .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3 Results ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 4 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 5 References ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 6 Additional chapters needed for GES assessment ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 A1 Impacts of coastal artificialization ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 A2 How to approach the GES assessment ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 A3 Gaps and development needs ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 A4 Connections between Coastal Ecosystems and Landscape and other ecological objectives ................................................................................................................................ 18 i List of figures Figure 1. Map showing built-up coastline (in red) and natural coastline (in green) (G. Berlengi) ................................................................................................................ 2 Figure 2. Indicator calculation method - overlapping of built parts of the construction area (red polygons on the orthophoto images) and generalized coastline gives the share of the built shore (red line) in the total length of the coastline. For the purposes of this indicator, the coastline is generalized to avoid the unrealistic length of the anthropogenic coast (ponts, marinas, ports). .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Figure 3. Administrative borders of Municipalities in Coastal region ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 Figure 4. Difference between corrected and official coastline (official coastline is presented with yellow colour) ........................................................................................ 5 Figure 5. Examples of defining the type of coastline along the main road in the Bay of Kotor ...................................................................................................................... 6 Figure 6. Examples of defining length of artificial coastline for seaports and nautical tourism ports ............................................................................................................ 7 Figure 7. Spatial presentation of coastal delineation by type of coastline in Montenegro ............................................................................................................................ 9 Figure 8. The length and type of artificial coastline in Montenegro ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 Figure 9. Luka Bar ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 10. Marina Porto Montenegro .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 11. Turističko naselje Lištica Bay – breakwaters – seaport structures ................................................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 12. Seaport structures – Porto Novi .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Figure 13. Seaside front of touristic complex Lazure .................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 14. Concrete beach Hotel Palmon Bay, Herceg Novi ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 15. ”Ploča” beach – Platamuni (Source: left-ortophoto, right- National strategy for integrated coastal zone management of Montenegro) .................................................... 12 Figure 16. Seawater promenade – City of Budva to Mogren beach ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Figure 17. Seawater promenade – Perast, Kotor ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 18. The mouth of the river Škurda, city of Kotor Source: Ortophoto .................................................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 19. River mounth near airport Tivat (Source: Ortophoto) .................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 20. Construction works near the coastline – Kumbor- Porto Novi (Source: Ortophoto) ........................................................................................................................ 13 Figure 21. Shipyard- Bijela (Source: Ortophoto)............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 List of tables Table 1. Length of built-up coastline in Montenegro (provided by G. Berlengi) .......................................................................................................................................... 2 ii Spatial Analysis on Length of Coastline Occupied by Human-made Structures