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posted on 2024-06-06, 11:56authored byR Koss, G Wescott
Global governments have come to recognise and acknowledge that an integrated approach to coastal and marine policy and management in order to govern human actvity is necessary to maintain biodiverse marine ecosystems. This approach to policy and management requires integration rather than simply coordinating policy, planning and management across the coastal and marine interface (Wescott 2012). With just over a third of the global pupulation living along the coastal zone (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment [MA] 2005), it is necessary to consider how natural and political boundaries, economic, social and environmental seascapes integrate concurrently for coastal and marine policy planning and implementation. This is because human activities take place on a continuous gradient across interconnecting catchmenrt, coastal and marine ecosystems, where resource use as diverse as agriculture in coastal marshland and offshore non-renewable energy extraction have to be considered (MA 2003).
History
Chapter number
10
Pagination
157-175
ISBN-13
9781136294822
Language
eng
Publication classification
B Book chapter, B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2015, Routledge
Extent
38
Editor/Contributor(s)
Smith HD, De Vivero JLS, Agardy TS
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, Eng.
Title of book
Routledge handbook of ocean resources and management