Sustainability of the land-­sea system for eco-tourism strategies.
The Land-Sea project contributes to tackle the issue of the management policies for the coastal areas, by especially addressing the preservation of the land­-sea eco­system and its sustainable fruition for proposed socio­ economic development connected to eco-tourism strategies. For coastal areas, we mean a complex system identified not only with the coastline itself but also with its various subsystems and with its linked river basins. In fact, the EU coastal areas represent fragile and vulnerable systems in physical, territorial, anthropic, social and economic terms. The challenge of the project is to turn "defensive" measures into "pro­-active" occasions for promoting interventions of regional growth in the field of the eco­-tourism sector and its connected fields. The general objective of the project is to favour a more inclusive, effective and efficient processes of regional governance so to increase and to encourage the creation of institutional competences and skills for the development of a sustainable coastal system, able to preserve natural habitats and contextually to support the development of regional eco-tourism strategies.
The approach is founded on a participated process of interregional learning, based on the exchange of experience and knowledge, finalized to the production of the 4 action plans to implement, during the last period, mainly within the Structural Funds Operational Programmes of the concerned regions. The expected result is the improvement of the 4 chosen regional Policy Instruments, thanks to a better governance of the Instruments and to the proposal of new projects and/or new measures of intervention. This change will be concrete and will interest both the Managing Authorities, the concerned directorates, the individuated stakeholders and the beneficiaries of the chosen Programmes/Plans (i.e. local authorithies, economic operators in the field of the eco-tourism sector and of the environmental management of the coastal areas).