Managing Growth in Florida: Focus on the Coast
Management of the Florida's phenomenal growth and protection of the coasts became an issue of major public concern in Florida in the mid-1980s. The legislative response to...
The Management of Coastal Zone Resources in Panama
Since independence in 1903, Panama has constructed an interoceanic canal and oil pipeline, established a fishing fleet, built access roads to much of the Pacific shoreline, and developed...
Waterfronts Revived
This paper explores the experiences of North American cities in their efforts to improve opportunities for the public to use and enjoy their shores. This work is an outgrowth of research...
Global Issues?Local Responsibilites
This paper discusses the concrete, day-to-day benefits of international regulations, the specific roles that local officials and interest groups play in developing successful international...
Is It Safe to Eat the Seafood?
The issue of bacterial, viral and chemical contamination of Puget Sound seafood and its consequent impact on human health has been of concern for some time. This paper discusses potential...
Estuarine Protection Through Public Participation
Because public participation is such a time-honored component of the coastal resource management process, it is often easy to forget the pivotal role that citizen activism and public access...
Salmon Restoration in Humboldt Bay: A Model of Citizen and Government Participation
Two organizations emerged in 1969 that successfully brought together a wide variety of public and private entities and government agencies with the goal of reversing the decline of the...
Ecosystem Studies and Policy-Relevant Evaluative Research (
The central purpose of policy-relevant evaluative research is to provide information that is directly applicable to making decisions related to the legislative or institutional authority...
Overlooked Tools that Build Coastal Constituencies
The need for public involvement was recognized by the authors of the original Coastal Zone Management Act in 1972. Detailed requirements and recommendations were set forth on Public participation...
Still More on Japan's Inland Sea Coastal Citizens' Movements
This paper is the third in a continuing series of reports on the battle of Japan's coastal citizens in that nation's largest estuarine water body, the famed Seto...
Citizen Education and Participation
The role of public participation is of increasing concern to governmental technicians responsible for the development of comprehensive planning programs in general community planning,...
South Carolina Coastal Council Beach Monitoring Program
The South Carolina coast was divided into three sections by general morphologic features. Beaches were then inventoried, measured and assigned priorities based on degree of development,...
Trends in Funding and Ties to Solutions in Florida
The most prevalent type of grant projects funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) through the Florida Coastal Management Program were management-related plans....
CZM: Evaluation of State and Local Power-Sharing
Since 1976, the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Commerce has approved coastal management programs in twenty-nine states and territories. No two state programs are alike, and they...
How to Save a Resource Negotiated Development
In negotiating a development project where the object is to preserve a resource, the negotiator must 'bring something to the table. ' That something is either...
Private Coastline Conservation Management: The Land Trust in the San Juan Islands, Washington
Waterfront land values in prime recreation areas like the San Juan Islands are very high. Local, state, and federal agencies have scarce resources for conserving the natural beauty of...
Tsunami?Preparing for a Vague and Rare Event
A tsunami (tidal wave) to an earth scientist is a vague event - to others, it is a Hollywood enhanced and misunderstood event. These attitudes are heightened by the fact that tsunamis...
Canada's Policy for National Marine Parks
The paper reviews some of the unique characteristics of marine ecosystems that demand management considerations distinct from those applied to terrestrial ones. The second part presents...
Marine Protected Areas and Customary Rights
Customary rights and their importance to the establishment and management of coastal and protected marine areas has emerged as an issue of universal concern. Local involvement in the planning...
The Role of Marine Parks Management in the Conservation of Philippine Coastal Resources
The government, recognizing the need to conserve coastal resources, created in 1977 the Marine Park Inter-Agency Task Force to prepare and supervise the implementation of a master plan...
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