Changes in coastal condition are not only important in terms of environmental impacts, but are also likely to affect the quality of life of people living in the coastal zone. Information on potential social implications of resource management actions is increasingly required before management decisions are made. However, there are few tools available to assess the impacts of changes in environm...

The aim of the Congress: Since the need for coastal management was accepted four decades ago, significant efforts have been devoted globally with accelerations after the Rio Conference. Over this lengthy period, significant experiences have accumulated. Tools and instruments, simple and sophisticated, practical and scientific, have been designed and refined for effective implementation of Integ...

The coastal zone is a complex area, consisting of both the marine and terrestrial environments. It is also home for an increasing number of activities, rights and interests, and according to the UN Atlas of the Ocean 44% of the worlds population. Worldwide countries are realising the need to balance development and exploitation of resources in the coastal zone with environmental and social need...

This paper examines the assessment of cumulative environmental impacts and the implementation of integrated coastal management within the harbour of Xiamen, China, an urban region in which the coastal zone is under increasing pressure as a result of very rapid economic growth. The first stage of analysis incorporates components of a cumulative effects assessment, including (a) identification of...

Coastal mapping and shoreline change detection are critical to many applications, including navigation, coastal zone management, coastal environmental protection, and sustainable development. Field surveying and on-site investigation become inevitable to ensure the quality of coastal decision making. To provide innovative tools for governmental agencies to increase efficiency and reduce operati...

This paper provides a framework for the assessment of the natural sensitivity of coastal lagoons to anthropogenic and other external inputs. The assessment framework is based on analysis and consideration of morphometric characteristics of coastal lagoons, and is demonstrated in this paper using eight example intermittently open coastal lagoons from New South Wales, Australia. The framework pre...

Introduction Coastal floods account for a large proportion of the damage to life and property due to natural disasters world-wide. Out of the 15 greatest natural disasters in the world in terms of monetary losses between 2004 and 2008, 14 were coastal (Kron 2008). However, despite the enormity of a particular flood event, people often return to a flood-prone area after a disaster (Cigler 2007; ...

Bangladesh has a coastline of 710 km along the Bay of Bengal, which will be extremely exposed to climatic hazards over the coming decades. At present, the improvement of people’s livelihoods of this zone largely depends on the climate adaptation approaches adopted mainly through water management and agricultural practice. Although the cross-sectoral dimension of the Integrated Coastal Zone Mana...

Coastal fisheries are an important. component of the fisheries sector and rural economy of tropical developing countries in Asia generating food, employment and foreign exchange. In 1994, marine landings of these countries were about 13.3 million t (roughly 16% of world marine landings), most originating from coastal areas. The coastal fishery resources consist dominantly of species with relati...