Coastal Management Revisited
Coastal Management Revisited

Author: Bernhard Glaeser

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780128181942

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Coasts emerge where land, water, and air meet. Coastal areas are often renowned for their particular cultural histories, resource abundance and economic wealth, their biological productivity and biodiversity, and scenic beauty. Coasts are also ecologically highly vulnerable. Multiple uses tied to a plethora of interests often generate conflict. Preserving the richness of coastal areas and their economic functions requires comprehensive management schemes. Coastal Management needs to be designed so as to enable ecologically sustainable coastal development, socioeconomic well-being, and social justice. Coastal Management Revisited: Navigating Towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations presents an account of twenty plus years of research on coasts, oceans and small islands, linking social and ecological systems, in close collaboration with natural scientists, managers, policy makers and the local populations involved. Integrated and sustainable coastal management is multi-facetted, greatly issue-dependent and has, during its history, followed different trends and paths. The authors address challenges to society - to coastal management in particular - that have been generated by human activity in both temperate and tropical environments. Ultimately, the book describes the maturation of a field. Includes studies in temperate (Sweden, Germany) and tropical (Brazil, Indonesia) regions Explores diverse and changing issues, ranging from conflict resolution to governance at multiple levels, natural disasters and climate change, ethical-political perspectives, and coastal and ocean typologies. Presents six sections, all with a focus on coastal human-nature relations: Conceptual framings, Methods to approach human-nature dynamics, Navigating scales - temperate and tropical cases, Ethics and governance, and Linking research to governance. Includes specific themes such as, multi-level analysis; participatory management, measuring sustainability, multi-agent modelling; sustainable coastal management; political insights from national cases, a coast and ocean strategy, the spatial planning approach; coastal and marine social-ecological typologies

Coastal Management Revisited
Coastal Management Revisited

Author: Bernhard Glaeser

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1527592685

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The book presents an overview and historic perspectives of a novel scientific field coming of age today: coastal and ocean management. It covers diverse and changing issues, ranging from conflict resolution to governance and ethical-political imperatives, natural disasters and climate change, culminating in coastal and ocean typologies, the basis for a future theory of coasts and oceans. Eighteen chapters, written by two main authors in cooperation with international experts, review 25 years of research. The authors address challenges to society related to global change issues that have been generated by human activity in both temperate (Sweden, Germany and the United States) and tropical regions (Brazil, Indonesia). Ultimately, the book documents the maturation of a field and responds to changing societal needs and scientific outlooks. It gathers recent analyses along with important earlier research, with a foreword by Biliana Cicin-Sain and Richard Delaney, globally renowned as coastal and ocean experts in theory and practice. Its broad approach makes the book a must-read for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as coastal management and marine spatial planning practitioners, and for researchers in the fields of geography, anthropology, history of science, human and social ecology, and environmental and development studies.

Coastal Defences
Coastal Defences

Author: Peter W. French

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1134640188

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Coastal Defences aims to present the broad spectrum of methods that engineers use to protect the coastline and investigates the sorts of issues that can arise as a result. The first section of the book examines 'traditional' hard techniques, such as sea walls and groynes, whilst the second looks at the more recent trend of using techniques more sympathetic to nature. By looking at each of the main methods of coastal protection in detail, the book investigates the rationale for using each method and the consequent management issues, presenting a case for and against each of the techniques.

Legislating for an ecosystem approach to fisheries – Revisited
Legislating for an ecosystem approach to fisheries – Revisited

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9251349339

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The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is a risk-based management process for the planning, management, development, regulation and monitoring of fishing and fishing-related activities. EAF addresses ecological consequences of fishing as well as social, economic and institutional aspects of fisheries sustainability. Adequate legislation and regulatory frameworks are key to successful implementation of the EAF. The continuous review and update of information on legislation and regulatory instruments require the analysis of existing legal frameworks at all levels of governance, to assess whether they remain in force, valid and aligned with international fisheries law standards, including the EAF. The present work was prepared with a view to provide current information on how the EAF is being implemented through national legal frameworks of selected countries in Africa. It revisits a previous legal study prepared by Anniken Skonhoft and published by FAO in 2011. A decade later, based on the scope of that study, the present work provides updated data and contributes to the knowledge on the current global and regional legal frameworks for an EAF, which are vital for EAF implementation purposes. This update also re-analysed certain countries’ national legislation and their evolution with respect to capturing the EAF requirements. Ultimately, the present work supports the legal implementation of an EAF for a holistic, integrated and innovative way of managing fisheries that promotes the participation of all relevant stakeholders and the use of best available knowledge for decision making, whilst balancing the human dimensions with the care for the environment, habitats, ecosystems and biodiversity related with fishery resources on which they depend.

Managing European Coasts
Managing European Coasts

Author: Jan Vermaat

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9783540234548

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This book focuses on the interchange between a selected multidisciplinary team on future coastal management in Europe. It serves as a background for the successful implementation of EC directives relevant to the coast. The study summarizes methodologies and analyses for supporting implementation of these directives and evaluates institutional and capacity requirements. It addresses issues of globalization including climate change and economic development. Integrated assessment is used and future scenarios for the coast are developed.

Securitizing Marine Protected Areas
Securitizing Marine Protected Areas

Author: Elizabeth M. De Santo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-10

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1040044131

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This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice. The book argues that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are not only a critical tool for protecting marine biodiversity in a changing climate, but they also play an important role at the intersection of geopolitics and environmental justice, and they provide a case study of environmental governance at the science-policy interface. The book takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach and builds on the author's two decades of experience working in this field. Geopolitically, it explores the ways in which MPAs provide footprints for influence and access to resources far from home for nations with overseas territories. MPAs also raise important issues connected to equity, environmental justice, and social justice, including access to resources and participation in environmental decision-making processes, key aspects for achieving long-term conservation goals. The book also demonstrates how MPAs are a critical lens for understanding how policy makers cope with scientific uncertainty, and the necessity of well-designed and precautionary science advisory processes. While the ecological contribution of MPAs is paramount, social issues and geopolitical considerations are often less obvious in the discourse underpinning MPAs, and the resulting tensions can undermine long-term conservation objectives. By applying the three lenses of geopolitics, environmental justice and science, this book provides key insights to help the international community moving past the 2030 biodiversity targets and beyond, towards a future of meaningful, equitable, and effective conservation approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of biodiversity conservation, marine studies, political geography, environmental governance, and science-policy studies. It will also be of interest to marine conservation governance professionals and policymakers.

Climatopolis
Climatopolis

Author: Matthew E. Kahn

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0465063837

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One of the worldÕs leading urban and environmental economists tells us what our lives will be like when climate change arrives