6.2 Integrated Estuary Management
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The main threats for the implementation are as follows:
• On political level the avoidance solution and the Master Plan Wesermarsch are closely
connected, although these options have been separately developed. The avoidance solution is linked to the current planned fairway deepening and, therefore, has after the
approval a legal status. The current planned fairway deepening of the Weser is at the
court and politics might use the situation to postpone or delay the implementation
process until a judgment has been rendered.
• The established Planning Association Wesermarsch and the representatives of the agricultural sector might fear that the active attendance in a participation process hamper
or even freeze the funding of the Master Plan process.
• Main funding of the Master Plan Wesermarsch will be spread over three different levels
and institutions, that is, Federal Waterway Administration and the Federal States Lower
Saxony and Bremen. The Federal Water and Shipping Administration is responsible for
the implementation of the fairway deepening in the Weser. The Federal States Lower
Saxony and Bremen applied for the deepening to improve and maintain the accessibility
of harbors.
The following improvements might help to get a step further within the implementation
process:
• develop an integrated long-term vision,
• broaden the scope of the current project, try to incorporate other sectors and types of
land use,
• assess future boundary conditions, to be prepared for future developments so that the
proposed solution has long-term perspective,
• develop an alternative solution together with the involved parties from out the area, for
example, enabling multiple purposes or/and get support by other parties,
• initiate a participatory integrated planning process to incorporate and merge the
previous aspects,
• try to build new coalitions.
The benefits of the previously mentioned improvements might be as follows:
• If the Master Plan Wesermarsch is successfully implemented the Federal Water and
Shipping Administration won’t get further actions at the court for the next fairway
deepening.
• A successful implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch might lead to the prospect that farming can be as it was. Consequently, the local inhabitants might be
pleased.
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The main threats for the implementation are as follows:
• On political level the avoidance solution and the Master Plan Wesermarsch are closely
connected, although these options have been separately developed. The avoidance solution is linked to the current planned fairway deepening and, therefore, has after the
approval a legal status. The current planned fairway deepening of the Weser is at the
court and politics might use the situation to postpone or delay the implementation
process until a judgment has been rendered.
• The established Planning Association Wesermarsch and the representatives of the agricultural sector might fear that the active attendance in a participation process hamper
or even freeze the funding of the Master Plan process.
• Main funding of the Master Plan Wesermarsch will be spread over three different levels
and institutions, that is, Federal Waterway Administration and the Federal States Lower
Saxony and Bremen. The Federal Water and Shipping Administration is responsible for
the implementation of the fairway deepening in the Weser. The Federal States Lower
Saxony and Bremen applied for the deepening to improve and maintain the accessibility
of harbors.
The following improvements might help to get a step further within the implementation
process:
• develop an integrated long-term vision,
• broaden the scope of the current project, try to incorporate other sectors and types of
land use,
• assess future boundary conditions, to be prepared for future developments so that the
proposed solution has long-term perspective,
• develop an alternative solution together with the involved parties from out the area, for
example, enabling multiple purposes or/and get support by other parties,
• initiate a participatory integrated planning process to incorporate and merge the
previous aspects,
• try to build new coalitions.
The benefits of the previously mentioned improvements might be as follows:
• If the Master Plan Wesermarsch is successfully implemented the Federal Water and
Shipping Administration won’t get further actions at the court for the next fairway
deepening.
• A successful implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch might lead to the prospect that farming can be as it was. Consequently, the local inhabitants might be
pleased.