Dubrovnik WHS Management Plan: Reflections and Proposals 1. Living community Andronira Burda, Arlinda Sheqiri, Dragana Mileusnic, Ivan Gakic 2. Tourism & Development Alma Demirovic, Ozlem Kosker, Anastasia Kouki, Dusan Markovic 3. Policy Influence Igor Shesho, Ivana Cvetkovic, Evlampia Vlachou, Diana Tutica, Dragana Petrovic

1. Dubrovnik WHS Management Plan
Reflections and Proposals
04/10/2013

2. METHODOLOGY
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Living community
Engineering/technical/construction
Tourism/development
Policy/influence
OBJECTIVES
ACTIONS
MONITORING
FRAMEWORK
SOURCES OF MATERIAL
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In relation with
Energy & Heritage
Site visit
Interviews of members of the local community
Review of examples of best practices
EDUCATION
FINANCES

3. Dubrovnik WHS Management Plan
- Living community 04/10/2013
Andronira Burda
Arlinda Sheqiri
Dragana Mileusnic
Ivan Gakic

4. Objectives
• Increasing living comfort of the local community through
Energy Efficiency measures;
• Educating the local community (residents, property owners,
business owners) and decision-makers to achieve constructive
collaboration in implementing Energy Efficiency measures in
the heritage site.

5. Actions
• Short term
• Focus groups on living comfort and energy consumption;
• Setting up an info centre and informing local community on EE
• Medium term
• Specific Guidelines for EE measures in line with the local community comfort
needs
• Pilot projects to raise awareness of the local community (examples of good
practices)
• Achieving knowledge exchange and capacity building through regular
meetings, workshops and discussions
• Long term
• Incentives for local community on EE – media promotion (tax reduction,
awards : Green building of the year etc.)

6. Monitoring (indicators)
• Monitoring EE in existing buildings (consumption, and bill
costs)
• Supervision of implementation of the new Guidelines
• Feedback from local community and decision makers
(through regular meetings and discussions)
• Supervision of pilot project implementation – measuring its
impact (through interviews and regular meetings and
discussions)
• Supervising Awards programme

7. Framework (actors)
• Local community (residents, property owners, business owners)
• Energy and heritage experts to educate local government and local
community;
• Empowering Energy Efficiency Department (under local
governance)
• Conservation Department, and Institute for Restoration of
Dubrovnik
• Inspectors to enforce policy changes
• Consultant to mediate and coordinate the process

8. Dubrovnik WHS Management Plan
Engineering, Technical and Constructional Aspects
in relation to Energy and Heritage
4th October 2013
Galina Slavova
Melita Lubina
Naida Taso
Vladimir Kalinski

9. Objectives
Improving energy efficiency (EE)
at end users
Use of renewable energy sources
(RES) if possible and efficient
Use of Best Available Techniques
(BAT)
Respecting heritage
environment
and according to specific
heritage site requirements
(legal, constructional,
limitations)!

10. Actions
Short term (< 1 y)
• Cadastre of heritage site
• Education and awareness
Medium term (1 – 5 y)
• Energy audits
• Energy study of infrastructure
• Project identification, and
implementation
• Education and awareness
Long term (>5 y)
• Project implementation
• Monitoring, data collection and
evaluation
• Continuing education and awareness
• Cadastre of heritage site:
▫ Address or position
▫ Ownership status
▫ Use
▫ General structural
characteristics
• Energy audit:
▫ Energy characteristics of
buildings
▫ Structural characteristics of
building
▫ Narrative report (experiences
of buildings’ users)

11. Monitoring (indicators)
• Supervision of project implementation / Compliance with
legislation through approved project document (PD)
• Energy consumption (measured; over bills)
• Comfort level

12. Framework (actors)
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Energy experts
Heritage experts
Building engineers
Supervisors (Consultant, Local Government, Conservation office,
International inspector (e.g. UNESCO)
• Users (residents, owners, …)
• Local government / Ministries
• National Agency for Legal Trade and Real-Estate Mediation (APN)

13. Management Plan of Dubrovnik
- Tourism & Development 03/10/2013
Alma Demirovic
Ozlem Kosker
Anastasia Kouki
Dusan Markovic

14. 3.1 Objectives
- Effective energy management of the touristic population in terms of
energy efficient consumption
- To address touristic and development energy needs by using more
Renewable Energy Resources (RES)
- To raise awarness of stakeholders towards a more energy efficient
usage of the heritage site

15. 3.2 Actions
• Means of transport using biodiesel produced by used cooking oils
from restaurants, hotels and generally the tourist industry.
• Night lights, traffic lights, bus station light inside and around the WHS
to function with small solar panels.
• Forbidden high energy consumption touristic cruises to approach the
old city heritage walls no less than 1 km from the coast.
• Reconstruction of the Pile area
• Collaboration between local community and tourist industry about
informing insiders and outsiders of the WHS about sustainable energy
practices.
• 24hours constant updating monitoring (GPS) website on energy
consumption and number of tourists coming to from cruises, airplanes,
buses and perhaps taxis.

16. 3.3 Monitoring (indicators)
• Creation of a steering and monitoring committee or board from local
government, local people, touristic industry, transportation and
energy companies, academia and experts in heritage management
about the monitoring, supervising, adaptation, deciding and
evaluation concerning sustainable energy and touristic development
of the WHS. - President of that body will be the central mentor or the
whole procedure and people can address to each office for more
information and suggestions
• Measure satisfaction of local people, long-term and short term
tourists, employers, heritage managements, tourist guiders about the
levels of protection and energy efficiency use inside the heritage site.

17. 3.4 Framework
• Taxes brakes for sustainable tourist practices.
• Stricter penalties for insufficient energy and heritage management.
• Legislation concerning all the above actions and actors, using as
much as we can democratic tools (local referendums, debates etc) .
• Ministry of Culture
• Local Heritage Conservation Institutions

18. Dubrovnik WHS Management Plan
Policy Influence
Oct. 3rd 2013
Igor Shesho
Ivana Cvetkovic
Evlampia Vlachou
Diana Tutica
Dragana Petrovic

19. Policy / influence – Energy + Heritage

20. Objectives
• Improving EE policy without affecting the significance of the site
• Setting up an efficient framework for detailed urban plan and
Management Plan (balancing EE and heritage protection)

21. Actions
Short term
Medium term
Long term
Create a legal form for
management (NGO,
foundations, …)
Collect the results from the steering
group
Assessment of the policy
Propose updates for a policy (from
the results of the steering group)
Education (public
presentation, education of
children in schools,
government)
Set up an enforcement body for
updating the policy
Financial benefit: loans,
regular payments, savings, tax
reliefs, incentives
Organise: debate, round
table, workshops
Agreement of mutual
cooperation

22. Monitoring (indicators)
▫ Non application / Application of the law -> annual report
▫ Number of approvals / refusal of application
▫ Infringement of the law
Actions
▫ Surveys (collection of approvals / refusals of applicants)
▫ Communal police and building inspection on site

23. Framework (actors)
• Policy development
▫ Ministries (energy, culture, education, law)
▫ Local authorities
▫ Institutions (Institute for Restoration of Dubrovnik, Conservation
Department)
• Policy implementation
▫ Intersectural task force (…)
• Supervision
▫ Supervisors (internal, external)

24. Financing
• International bodies (EC, UNDP, WB, GEF, etc.)
• Support from the national and local level goverments
• ESCO model and other Public-Private-Partnership (PPP)
• Crowd-funding initiatives and pro bono consultants
• Creation of a fund (collecting taxes and fares from touristic and
economic activities) for financeing EE projects.

25. Education
• Presentation and dissemination of good practices / replicability through
info centres
• Workshops and university classes for new professionals and local
community
• Knowledge transfer for decision makers (institutes and conservation
departments)
• Public debates and awareness rasing campaigns
• Website, social network promotion, media