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Sustainable Development of the Coastal Cities

Sustainable development is identified as a much broader concept than the environmental protection. It has economic, social, cultural as well as environmental dimension. The first part of this paper discusses and distinguishes between the notions of sustainability, development and sustainable development. It explains why there is a great emphasis on, and significant need for the planning of the process of development of a certain system. The second part defines a city as a system, and allows the application of the system theory in researching and explaining its sustainable development. Coastal cities, compared to continental ones, are more challenging and difficult to plan, manage and govern. Above all, their geographical position and environmental dimension give them specific base for economic opportunities (tourism, industry, services, harbors, refraction points, transport corridors...). Growth of the coastal urban population created, and is still creating, congestion within the boundaries of coastal cities, with all its negative consequences. In many cases, coastal cities started to enlarge, penetrating into their surrounding hinterland. The example of such metropolitan area of the coastal city - Split, is given in the paper.

sustainability; development; sustainable development; coastal cities; urban management; metropolitan area

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