A coastal fishery brings high productivity and economic profit while supporting cultural norms. However, it also causes environmental degradation and political conflicts, which sometimes collapse a fishery. With the current global shift from capture fisheries to aquaculture, appropriate management is required for social and environmental sustainability. To identify essential factors in coastal ...

This paper represents the overall current situation of two Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) programsone is as a successful model like Xiamen ICZM program in China and another is as a developing project like ICZM program in Bangladesh. The paper begins with an attempt to track the evolution of policies and their implementation on coastal zone management with particular reference from bo...

Human society and coastal ecosystems are very closely interlinked and interdependent. A vast majority of the population live in coastal areas, and depend on marine and coastal resources for food, employment and income. Focused assessments made by United Nations University (UNU) indicate that this human dependence on the life-sustaining coastal resources is under threat from a range of destabili...

Because conventional markets value only certain goods or services in the ocean (e.g. fish), other services provided by coastal and marine ecosystems that are not priced, paid for, or stewarded tend to become degraded. In fact, the very capacity of an ecosystem to produce a valued good or service is often reduced because conventional markets value only certain goods and services, rather than the...

the continuous degradation of the marine ecosystem leads to the establishment of marine protected areas (mpas) as a protective measure. because of the wide array of benefits that can be gained upon its establishment, socio-economic contributions were taken into consideration using a descriptive survey method of research among the seven mpas in lingayen gulf. data revealed that members of the fi...

Marcel J.F. Stive The development of coastal erosion management addressing typical traditional erosion problems towards coastal zone management addressing the evaluation of alternative solutions to guarantee a variety of coastal zone functions on their economic time scale has necessitated the formulation of large-scale coastal evolution (LSCE) models. Using the coastal evolution of the Netherla...

Increasing coastal space resource utilization (CSRU) activities and their impact on coastal environments has been recognized as a critical coastal zone stressor. Consequently, the need for sustainable and valid CSRU management has been highlighted. In this study, a highly-intelligent prototype decision-aided system for CSRU was developed. In contrast with existing coastal decision-aided systems...

Coastal zone ecosystems sit between larger terrestrial and marine environments and, therefore, are strongly affected by processes occurring in both systems. Marine coastal zone systems provide a range of benefits to humans, and yet many have been significantly degraded as a result of direct and indirect human impacts. Management efforts have been hampered by disconnects both between management ...