Former Soviet Leaders
Seeking Environmental
Management Ideas
BY SUSAN USHKR
Washington. DC. High-rise
oceanfront condos in Myrtle Reach.
S.( I tic very different port cities of
New Orleans and Roston. Raleigh.
Morehead City, a corporate row
crop operation in Carteret County, a
coastal resort and a hog farm in
Rrunswick County.
All are classrooms tor a group of
Eastern European business and envi
ronmental leaders seeking timely
lessons from America in coastal
/one management. Last week offi
cials trom Ukraine, Georgia and
Russia attended a meeting of (he
N.C . C oastal Resources Commis
sion at Sunset Reach as part of a
World Rank-sponsored studv tour.
I heir countries vary tremendous
ly in size and population?from
Georgia's 5 million people to Rus
sia's 138 million people, hut they
tace some challenges and opportuni
ties in common.
In the context of coastal zone
management, the countries are look
ing at ways to "strike a median be
tween the goals ot the economy and
of the ecology," said Leonid Yar
m.irk ot the C oastal Zone Manage
ment C enter in Russia. "We're inter
ested in learning how coastal man
agement goals are set here and how
they are achieved." It will be a start
ing point, because the countries lack
experience in American-style coas
tal management.
Like the others, he was speaking
through interpreter Sergei Chernov
of the World Rank.
Much ot the leaders' energies will
focus on a common area of concern
on their return: the fate of the Rlack
Sea.
I he Rlack Sea is deeply troubled
by pollution, overfishing." said
James Harrington, a former North
C arolina state official who coordi
nated the study tour by the World
Bank, an international financing
agency for reconstruction and devel
opment.
These three countries and Turkey,
Bulgaria and Romania have reached
an international agreement for res
cue of the sea through a centralized
agency, opting against privatization
when they had the choice. Internally,
the World Bank is helping each
country develop its own coastal
zone management program.
lour participants expressed inter
est in the way citizens participate in
and influence the setting of coastal
zone management priorities here,
and in the structure of government
agencies.
In the United States everybody
owns little plots of land." said Zviad
Bezhanidze, head of the economic
commission. Parliament of Adja
vian. Georgia. "That results in
Bandaid-type measures?like the
sandbags (seen in a video of North
Carolina beaches earlier that day). In
our country, when an initiative is de
cided. it is implemented uniformly."
Hiat's generally true in the other
countries as well. In Ukraine along
the Black Sea sandbagging wouldn't
be an alternative because no one's
allowed to build that close to the
shore because of an 100-meter no
build coastal zone from the high tide
line.
STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHER
KICKY CI.EMMONS (second from left) fields questions front business and government leaders from
three Eastern European countries Monday about the A. U'. Clemmons family farming operation near
Bolivia. The visitors Here part of a coastal zone management study tour sponsored by The World Bank.
Also pictured (from left) are Anatoli Tkachev, division chief for the Ministry for Environmental
Protection of Ukraine; Harold I). Jones, district conservationist, Brunswick County Soil and Water
Conservation District; V.viad Bezhanidze, head of the economic commission of the Parliament of
Adjarian, Republic of Georgia; and interpreter Sergei Chernov.
When the decision was made to
restore shoreline lost to erosion on
the Sea of A/ov. the central govern
ment look care of it.
One Ukrainian official is con
vinced that changing top-down-only
approach to implementing policies
has drawbacks as well.
"In our country when there is no
support for a policy at the grassroots
level the decisions tend not to be im
plemented." said Yuri Motlubey.
mayor of the 5(M(.(XX)-population
municipality of Mariupol." or
Zhdanov, which overlooks the Black
Sea. "In the U.S. you have both: it
gives you good balance. What
we've seen and heard is a possible
future scenario for us."
Motlubey said he thought the U.S.
was a good choice for the tour by the
World Hank bccause of its unique
ness "in terms of having public par
ticipation and a public climate for
making environmental decisions."
The group has met with state and
federal coastal and environmental
management officials, county gov
ernment officials in Carteret and
New Hanover counties, and govern
ment and business leaders in Myrtle
Beach. S.C.. where they looked at
the challenges of high-density coas
tal development.
Their tour also took them to a
large, row crop operation in Carteret
County and to the A.W. Clemmons
diversified family fanning operation
in Bolivia. Clemmons and his sons
Ricky and Dale arc expanding their
hog grow-out business from two
houses to six. which will have a ca
pacity for 7,2tM) hogs. The visitors
asked knowledgeable questions
about manpower, equipment, sludge
treatment and disposal and ground
water monitoring.
Having observed complementary
vertical and horizontal structures of
government management at all lev
els, they particularly liked efforts
such as "Adopt A Highway" and the
Neuse River Keeper?nrograms th;<i
appear to be effective but don't re
quire a large investment.
"Our main conclusion thus far is
that no local problem can be solved
without an integrated management
approach." said Anatoli Tkachcv, di
vision chief. Ministry for Environ
mental Protection of Ukraine.
I"he visitors also had some ideas
for consideration by their counter
parts in the United States.
Zviad He/hanid/e, head of the
economic commission of the Parl
iament of Adjarian. is convinced the
United States doesn't always mar
shal its resources to greatest effect.
Applications from new technology
developed for the military and
health care systems, for example.
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should spill over into other sectors the money only started when Con
more rapidly, he suggested. gress realized the problem and
"It seems many problems are still passed a law (the Coastal Zone
being solved empirically and the Management Act). The value of that
general potential the nation has for law is that it was supported by ade
dealing with these issues is not real- quate funding to implement and en
ized." he theorized. force it. The people in the former
Yarmark sees another disadvan- Soviet Union have yet to realize that
tage in the United States' fragment- when you pass a law you need to
ed approach to dealing with the en- fund it."
vironmcnt. Increased public awareness and
"It's not clear who has the final support, the four agreed last week,
authority to make sure something is will be critical in making balanced
done," he said. "Nevertheless, it is coastal zone management effective
clearly impossible to change the sys- more than "wishful thinking" in
tern." their countries.
In their countries, he said, one "While money is always in short
agency is responsible for all envi- supply," said Hotlubey, "if the pco
ronmental issues. pic want something done, any may
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