Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts

Updates the topic of integrated coastal zone management

Internationally focused

Addresses coastal, marine planning and watershed topics

Updates the topic of integrated coastal zone management Internationally focused Addresses coastal, marine planning and watershed topics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Michelle Eva Portman is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is an international expert on marine and coastal policy and management; she has studied and worked in the field of environmental planning for over two decades. Her current research program focuses on the Mediterranean Sea. Among the topics her research addresses are: marine protected areas, marine spatial planning, the contribution of marine infrastructure to marine conservation, land-based sources of marine pollution and water sensitive urban development policies.

Contenu
Connections: Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts.- Why this book is needed.- Planning for Coasts and Oceans.- Managing of coastal and ocean environments.- "Walk through.- How this book can be used.- Definitions and Fundamental Concepts.- When? Historical considerations.- Who? Institutions and Legal Considerations.- What? Planning and management principles.- Why? Special Challenges.- New Horizons.- Coasts and Oceans physical and socio economic characteristics.- Climate Change Impacts.- Mitigation, adaptation, resilience.- Ocean Development.- Coastal Megacities.- Rivers and Inland Water bodies.- Principles of Integration.- What is integration and why is it important?.- Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- Integrated Marine Planning.- Integrated Watershed Planning.- Ecosystem based Management.- What this approach means.- Coastal ecoSystembased management.- Marine ecosystem based management.- Implementation.- Ecosystem Services.- Overview.- The Services.- ES Assessment.- Assessment Methods.- Coastal Tourism Planning.- Overview.- Socio economic considerations.- Coastal Ecotourism.- Public Participation.- Marine Spatial Planning.- Marine Protected Areas.- Decision Support Tools.- Water Sensitive Urban Development.- Case Study I.- Case Study II.- Case Study III.