CHAYfER 10 • Developing and Strategy for an ICZM in Cuba: Bases and Principles
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The basic premises for these strategy must be:
1. To promote the adequate use of knowledge about the physical, biological, social and
economical elements of our coasts accumulated over 30 years;
2. To insure that managers of coastal and marine resources acquire a conscience upon
the importance of their sustainable use;
3. Constant updating of the information upon the status and use of the marine and
coastal resources that officials who are to make decisions about these resources and
the communities that inhabit coastal zones must have, so they can make favourable
decisions;
4. To have an effective legislation and legal regulations in order to protect the coastal
and marine resources.
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The fundamental elements of the strategy must be:
1. To develop the capacities of national institutions to put into practice research and
surveillance on marine pollution, as well as devising and putting into practice mechanisms to control and reduce pollution;
2. To consolidate the Cuban system of protected marine areas, equipping it with legal,
technical and financial instruments for its efficient functioning;
3. To promote involvement oflocal communities in the management of the coastal and
marine zone, through the development of programs to educate, and mobilize in this
direction and to use all their traditional knowledge;
4. To improve the management of the coastal and marine resources, as well as the adequate mechanisms and institutions for it, making use of environmental impact
evaluation as an essential tool;
5. To continue and increase coastal and marine rehabilitation works through regeneration projects aI1d fostering conditions for them;
6. To protect fishing resources through sustainable use, by increasing the efficiency of officials that manage these resources, insuring that established fishing quotas are observed
for each species, area and season, and observing regulations regarding fishing arts;
7. To constantly update the contingency plans against spills and maintain active the
mechanisms for their execution;
8. To continue developing interdisciplinary scientific-technical research, to continue
encouraging the use of geographical information systems and other advanced technologies regarding coastal and marine studies;
9. To strengthen international bonds in the coastal and marine environmental sphere,
promoting joint research in order to monitor and protect the environment, with
special emphasis in the Great Caribbean region (Ramirez 1995);
10. To increase research and develop new methodologies that allow answers to the forecasts of climatic changes.
The needs for the coexistence of economic development and ecosystem functioning cannot be underestimated. However, it remains that ecosystem management and
protection are inevitably a compromise among competing alternatives; many are not
transferable from one setting to another, with different technical needs, opportunities
and constraints (Eagle 1996).
207
The basic premises for these strategy must be:
1. To promote the adequate use of knowledge about the physical, biological, social and
economical elements of our coasts accumulated over 30 years;
2. To insure that managers of coastal and marine resources acquire a conscience upon
the importance of their sustainable use;
3. Constant updating of the information upon the status and use of the marine and
coastal resources that officials who are to make decisions about these resources and
the communities that inhabit coastal zones must have, so they can make favourable
decisions;
4. To have an effective legislation and legal regulations in order to protect the coastal
and marine resources.
\
The fundamental elements of the strategy must be:
1. To develop the capacities of national institutions to put into practice research and
surveillance on marine pollution, as well as devising and putting into practice mechanisms to control and reduce pollution;
2. To consolidate the Cuban system of protected marine areas, equipping it with legal,
technical and financial instruments for its efficient functioning;
3. To promote involvement oflocal communities in the management of the coastal and
marine zone, through the development of programs to educate, and mobilize in this
direction and to use all their traditional knowledge;
4. To improve the management of the coastal and marine resources, as well as the adequate mechanisms and institutions for it, making use of environmental impact
evaluation as an essential tool;
5. To continue and increase coastal and marine rehabilitation works through regeneration projects aI1d fostering conditions for them;
6. To protect fishing resources through sustainable use, by increasing the efficiency of officials that manage these resources, insuring that established fishing quotas are observed
for each species, area and season, and observing regulations regarding fishing arts;
7. To constantly update the contingency plans against spills and maintain active the
mechanisms for their execution;
8. To continue developing interdisciplinary scientific-technical research, to continue
encouraging the use of geographical information systems and other advanced technologies regarding coastal and marine studies;
9. To strengthen international bonds in the coastal and marine environmental sphere,
promoting joint research in order to monitor and protect the environment, with
special emphasis in the Great Caribbean region (Ramirez 1995);
10. To increase research and develop new methodologies that allow answers to the forecasts of climatic changes.
The needs for the coexistence of economic development and ecosystem functioning cannot be underestimated. However, it remains that ecosystem management and
protection are inevitably a compromise among competing alternatives; many are not
transferable from one setting to another, with different technical needs, opportunities
and constraints (Eagle 1996).