Mjesto i uloga strateske procjene utjecaja na okolis u integralnom upravljanju obalnim podrucjem Republike Hrvatske/The Position and the Role of Strategic Environmental Assessment in Integrated Coastal Area Management of the Republic of Croatia

Strategic environmental assessment represents one of the management tools in integrated coastal area management. According to the legislation of The Republic of Croatia, strategic environmental assessment is obligatory for the majority of strategies, plans and programmes. The principles of integrated management such as interdisciplinarity, compliance with sector's interests and ecosystem approach, they might be realized by means of strategic environmental assessment as well as by means of spatial plans of the Adriatic Counties. Starting from the specific features of Eastern Adriatic Coast, the paper has given legal regulations of The Republic of Croatia, related to the integrated coastal area management with strategic environmental assessment, as well as the review of the sector's strategic documents and respective spatial plans of the coastal counties. There has been given also a short account of the recent application of strategic environmental assessment in The Republic of Croatia. Advantages and disadvantages of the strategic environmental assessment as one of the tools of integrated coastal area management have been represented by means of SWOT analysis.