Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Status, Challenges and Prospects

verfasst von: Dr. Frank Ahlhorn

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Buchreihe : Wasser: Ökologie und Bewirtschaftung

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The Book gives an overview about the Integrated Coastal Zone Management and offers examples and best practice. The focus is set on European coastal zones, worldwide and historical developements are considered also. Questions at the end of each chapter enable the consolidation of the matter.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

1. The Coast

Abstract

Before we start to dive into the complexity of integrated coastal zone management, because the understanding or even the definition of these four words would take us on a long journey, a short introduction of the term coast should be given. I don’t want to repeat most of the words that have already been written either by poets or scientists, it’s only to get a somewhat clearer picture of what is meant when we talk about the coast or the coastal zone. Lengthy definitions exist for these terms and I’d like to present a selection of them to, afterwards, come to a conclusion on how this understanding might resonate through this book.

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2. Historical Annotations

Abstract

Despite the fact that the use and to some extent the “management” of the coastal zone started long time ago it is not easy to set a starting point for the beginning of integrated coastal zone management. For example, in the late nineteenth century in Northern Germany civil engineers started to draw plans for the straightening and deepening of river channels – see Franzius (1888/1991). Many years before, men started to build dikes and to reclaim land from the sea and rivers to enhance the territory of emperors and simultaneously the fertile area to be used by peasants (Kramer and Rohde, 1992, van de Ven, 1993).

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3. Status: Basics of ICZM

Abstract

This section contains a compilation of several definitions of the term Integrated Coastal Zone Management. The aim is to indicate the variety of intentions, interpretations and comprehensions of this term. It is not the aim to repeat all available definitions.

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4. Hydrology of (shallow) Coastal Regions

Abstract

The water cycle of coastal regions is characterized by the interplay between the different hydrological processes. It can be described by the general water balance equation of a system, quantifying the change of water in a defined area.

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5. Challenges: Sectoral Descriptions

Abstract

The story about coastal protection has to be told because more than thousand years ago coastal inhabitants decided and were able to protect themselves against the rising water and floods. Although the definite beginning of building dikes could not be determined, evidence has been found that already in Roman times low mounds of clay have been raised (Bantelmann, 1966, Blok, 1984, Hallewas, 1984, Brandt, 1992). Here, the question of the beginning is not that important, it is more interesting to get an impression of the development on how coastal inhabitants react on the challenges for the protection against flooding caused by changing circumstances.

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6. Prospects: Approaches of Integrated Management

Abstract

After a long consultation process the Water Framework Directive (WFD, EC 2000) was published in 2000 as legislation for an integrated approach on water quality aspects, that is, ecological and chemical status of water bodies in the European Union. Hence, the WFD is the most important European legislations with regard to the context of this book. Various other Directives also regulate the water sector such as the Groundwater Directive (first 80/68/EEC, currently 2006/118/EC) and the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) which are altogether subsumed as daughter Directives of the WFD.

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7. Prospects: Methodologies of Integration

Abstract

The intention of integrated coastal zone management is the integration of the variety of interests and needs which can be found at the coast. The way on how to achieve a sustainable coastal development might be the establishment of a continuous and adaptive process. Despite this goal ICZM is mainly conducted as project either inter- or multidisciplinary. The amount of literature on project management and planning is awesome, here, selected references are introduced to exemplify basic aspects of project initiation and management. One has to consider that each project is unique even though you are already experienced because a variety of uncertainties have to be managed.

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8. Exercises: Fictitious Case Studies

Abstract

These exercises could either be executed by one person or as role play by a group, if a player takes over the “role” of a representative of an organization. If these exercises are played as role play try to develop a group decision model, see, for example, Chap. 7.

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Backmatter

Titel: Integrated Coastal Zone Management
verfasst von: Dr. Frank Ahlhorn
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-17052-3
Print ISBN: 978-3-658-17050-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17052-3