The coast of Sweden’s largest island, Gotland, is a place of conflicting interests. There is both the desire to preserve nature values and to develop the island’s tourism industry and rural areas. The planning and management of the coast are vital and faces the challenge of balancing these interests. In this study, personnel from the municipality and the county administrative board were interviewed in order to describe the status of the coastal zone management on Gotland. The results show that the shore protection and the comprehensive plan are important tools in the management of the coast. Rural areas that can be developed (LIS-areas) are identified by the municipality with regard to the tourism industry as well as ecological sustainability. However, further coastal zone management is not established, and there is a lack of tools to help management, such as integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). Furthermore, the newly proposed shore protection legislation causes uncertainty for the future of the coast. This study finds that there are, however, parts of ICZM in the planning, such as collaboration and long-term planning. However, areas such as knowledge on the coast and clear guidelines for who is responsible can be developed by implementing ICZM. ICZM is perceived as a potentially valuable tool for the coastal zone on Gotland and as a sustainable way to continue to find a balance between these conflicting interests. / Gotlands kust är en plats med motstridiga intressen, såsom att bevara naturvärden och önskan att utveckla öns besöksnäring och landsbygdsområden. Planeringen och förvaltningen av kusten är viktig och står inför utmaningen att balansera dessa intressen. I den här studien intervjuades Region Gotland och Länsstyrelsen för att beskriva statusen för kustzonsförvaltningen på Gotland. Studiens resultat visar att strandskyddet och översiktsplanen är viktiga verktyg för förvaltningen av kusten. Landsbygdsområden som kan utvecklas (LIS-områden) identifieras med hänsyn till besöksnäringen samt ekologisk hållbarhet och klimatförändringar. Men övrig kustzonsförvaltning är inte etablerad och det saknas verktyg som hjälper förvaltningen, till exempel en integrerad kustzonsplanering (IKZP). Det föreslagna strandskyddet skapar även osäkerhet för kustens framtid. Denna studie finner dock att det finns delar av IKZP i planeringen, till exempel samarbete och långsiktig planering. Områden som kunskap om kusten och tydliga riktlinjer för vem som är ansvarig kan dock utvecklas genom att implementera IKZP. IKZP upplevs som ett potentiellt värdefullt verktyg för kustzonen på Gotland och som ett hållbart sätt att fortsätta hitta en balans mellan dessa motstridiga intressen.

Coastal zone is the region of rapid socio-economic development and the habitat of various marine lives. With the increasing complexity of land use, integrated spatial planning is important and indispensable to the development of coastal zone. Coastal environment is a complicated system with highly dynamic environment, coastal zone planning needs to achieve the objectives of environmental protection, economic development and ecological sustainability. To solve this planning problem, either analytic or simulation approaches have been used. However these two approaches have their own demerits in problem solving. The purpose of this research is to develop a model combing analytic and simulation methods to solve spatial planning problem in complicated dynamic marine environment. Through combined with Multi-Objective Programming, Fuzzy Sets Theory and System Dynamics, a spatial planning model of dynamic multi-objective programming approach to the coastal zone spatial planning will be constructed. It could be used in coastal zone development predicting, regional and city planning and marine policy decision making.