Fundamentals of Integrated Coastal Management / Edition 1

by A. Vallega

Overview

by Elisabeth Mann Borgese Founder and Honorary President International Ocean Institute Adalberto Vallega has been, for decades, a master and great teacher of integrated coastal management and Mediterranean cooperation. This new book, of an almost en­ cyclopaedic scope, is a most original contribution to the rapidly growing literature on the subject, of equal value to the academic community which will greatly appreciate the theoretical, historic and philosophical underpinning of the work, and to the practitioner, the planner, regulator and manager, who will find in these pages most useful "checklists" for his duties and responsibilities. Vallega perceives the need for Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM) in the broader context of the ongoing third industrial revolution, which he calls the trans-industrial stage, in its interaction with climate change. There have been profound changes in the economies of the industrialized countries. The development of the new High Technologies,including micro-electronics, genetic engineering, new materials, has accelerated the transition from an economic system based primarily on production to one based very largely on services. This, in turn, has facilitated "globalization" of production systems and services, including the financial system, as well as the migration of people The ongoing global "Great Peo­ ple's Migration" is, generally, from the hinterland to the coasts where, already today, over 60 percent of the human population resides, exercising unprecedented pressures on the coastal and marine environment. Clearly, this justifies the current emphasis, at global, regional and national levels, on the need for coastal management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048152841
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	GeoJournal Library , #49
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. The subject.- 2. The coastal Area in Global Change.- 3. The Coastal Ecosystem.- 4. Administrative Areas and Jurisdictional Zones.- 5. The Coastal Economic Organisation.- 6. The geographical Extent of the Coastal Area.- 7. The Coastal Use Structure.- 8. Conflicts Between Coastal Uses.- 9. The coastal Decision-Making System.- 10. Integrated Coastal Management Programmes.- Conclusion.- Acronyms and Abbreviations.- References.- General.- The Mediterranean.- Geographical Index.- Author Index.- Notes.