CHAPTER 10 • Developing and Strategy for an ICZM in Cuba: Bases and Principles
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10.3.5
Strengthening of the Institutional Basis
The Ministry of Science Technology and Environment was created in 1994, its main
functions related with environmental protection are (IX Reunion de Ministros de
America Latina y el Caribe 1995):
• To increase and strengthen environmental inspection to insure compliance with legislation.
• Redefine procedures for assessing environmental impact and insure control of any
recommendations issuing from it.
• To update and complete national environmental legislation.
• To ac'h.ieve greater integration between environmental management and national
science.
Organizational Structure of the Ministry to accomplish these the functions:
• Direction of Environmental Policy;
• Environmental Agency:
- Center for Environmental Management and Inspection;
- Center for Protected Areas;
- Center for Environmental Information and Education;
- Research Centres:
- Institute of Meteorology;
- Institute of Oceanology;
- Institute of Ecology and Systematics;
- Institute of Tropical Geography;
- Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy;
- Centres for Recreation and Education:
- National Zoo;
- National Aquarium;
- National Museum of Natural History "Pelipe Poey".
10.3.6
Improvement of the Legal Framework
Current laws that rule the use, management and protection of the coasts are very diverse and heterogeneous, and the regulations do not include all the necessary aspects
for a proper protection, making it necessary to pass new regulations that will warrant
defence of the balance and physical progress of these resources, protection of its natural and cultural values, their sustainable exploitation, public use and actions aiming at
their restoration and improvement.
Also, it is necessary to define precisely the concepts of coastal and buffer zone, the
frame for environmental licenses and their possible uses, as well as insuring compliance with the principle of integrated management by all entities involved.
Already a draft of a Decree-Law for coastal zone management aiming at the conservation and sustainable development of coastal zones and their buffer zones has been
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10.3.5
Strengthening of the Institutional Basis
The Ministry of Science Technology and Environment was created in 1994, its main
functions related with environmental protection are (IX Reunion de Ministros de
America Latina y el Caribe 1995):
• To increase and strengthen environmental inspection to insure compliance with legislation.
• Redefine procedures for assessing environmental impact and insure control of any
recommendations issuing from it.
• To update and complete national environmental legislation.
• To ac'h.ieve greater integration between environmental management and national
science.
Organizational Structure of the Ministry to accomplish these the functions:
• Direction of Environmental Policy;
• Environmental Agency:
- Center for Environmental Management and Inspection;
- Center for Protected Areas;
- Center for Environmental Information and Education;
- Research Centres:
- Institute of Meteorology;
- Institute of Oceanology;
- Institute of Ecology and Systematics;
- Institute of Tropical Geography;
- Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy;
- Centres for Recreation and Education:
- National Zoo;
- National Aquarium;
- National Museum of Natural History "Pelipe Poey".
10.3.6
Improvement of the Legal Framework
Current laws that rule the use, management and protection of the coasts are very diverse and heterogeneous, and the regulations do not include all the necessary aspects
for a proper protection, making it necessary to pass new regulations that will warrant
defence of the balance and physical progress of these resources, protection of its natural and cultural values, their sustainable exploitation, public use and actions aiming at
their restoration and improvement.
Also, it is necessary to define precisely the concepts of coastal and buffer zone, the
frame for environmental licenses and their possible uses, as well as insuring compliance with the principle of integrated management by all entities involved.
Already a draft of a Decree-Law for coastal zone management aiming at the conservation and sustainable development of coastal zones and their buffer zones has been