Integrated coastal zone management with a good governance approach (Kish Island case example)

A Course in Coastal Zone/island Systems Management

Good Governance and Urban Management

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Indicators to measure governance performance in integrated coastal management

This paper discusses the potential contribution of indicators to assess the performance of the governance processes involved in integrated coastal management, focusing on the evaluation phase and the need to complement process-oriented indicators with outcomeoriented indicators to improve adaptive management and accountability. The example of integrated management of marine protected areas is u...

Intelligent Metadata Extraction For Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is an application area of increasing importance, requiring much data, information and knowledge. The scale of this resource is acknowledged at an international level, and is known to be ever growing. Among other factors, the global repository of coastal data and information is known to be fragmented, is of different formats and occurs at various scales....

Role of Remote Sensing to Integrated Coastal Zone Management

The coastal zone represents varied and highly productive ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, sea grasses and sand dunes. These ecosystems are under pressure on account of increased anthropogenic activity on the coast, as a result of globalisation. It is necessary to protect these coastal ecosystems to ensure sustainable development. This requires information on habitats, landforms, coast...