This article aims to study how mapping contributes to organize and implement Integrated Coastal Zone Management projects. In order to observe the use of spatial representations and better understand the stakeholder’s mapping practices a qualitative methodology is used. The results show that mapping was mostly used to structure and stabilize the actor’s network. MOTS-CLES : représentations spati...

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....

This paper discusses the missing resilience issues between activities of both integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) and regional strategic planning (RSP) approaches when dealing with region's through an applied study on Northwest Coast region Egypt overlooking Mediterranean Sea. The these two aims to save effort, time, money needed for preparing ICZM initiatives RSP projects by literature r...

The gap between Science and Policy is one of the main problems affecting implementation a sound coastal zone management in Mediterranean countries. Really, littoral marine ecosystems supply lot environmental services, that are actually exposed to many natural anthropic risks, influencing ecological status areas. So, basin, it has been introduced on 2002 participatory process named Integrated Co...

The economic growth of aquaculture and the dependence of a large growing population on coastal resources have led to coastal degradation and reduced resources. In this paper while realizing the potential capacities of the island systems,  the aquaculture activities of the island are specially discussed  in the framework of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). Therefore, in this study, fir...