Review article
Institutional Change through Regulation in Coastal Zone Management in Croatia
Vittorio Host
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies, Rijeka, Croatia
Borna Debelić
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The paper presents results of an institutional analysis regarding significance of regulatory changes of
Croatian Maritime common good and seaports act in 2023 in relation to the previous state in 2003 and
from the perspective of coastal zone management in Croatia and its ability to be harmonised with the
international standards of coastal area governance emerging from the Protocol on Integrated Coastal
Zone Management in the Mediterranean and Barcelona convention. The IAD framework approach
has been utilised to establish the analytical framework with main intervention areas analysed in this
research. The results show that although there are always risks associated with switching from an
older regulation to the newer one, and although the new regulation from 2023 is far from optimal
regarding multiple aspects, and particularly stakeholders’ participation, the greater risk would be if
the old regulation stayed in force instead of the new regulation.
Keywords
institutional change, regulation, institutions, coastal zone management.
Hrčak ID:
346316
URI
Publication date:
14.4.2026.
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