Regulating coastal zones : international perspectives on land management instruments /
Regulating coastal zones : international perspectives on land management instruments /
edited by Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach.
- 1 online resource (xii, 443 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Urban planning and environment .
"Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision makers across a broad spectrum of fields. Development pressures along coasts such as high-end tourism projects, luxury housing, ports, energy generation, military outposts, heavy industry and large-scale enterprise compete with landscape preservation and threaten local history and culture. Leading experts present fifteen case studies among advanced-economy countries, selected to represent three groups of legal contexts: signatories to the 2008 Mediterranean ICZM Protocol, parties to the 2002 EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and the USA and Australia. This book is the first to address the legal-regulatory aspects of coastal land management from a systematic cross-national comparative perspective. By including both successful and less-effective strategies, it aims to inform professionals, graduate students, policy makers, and NGOs of the legal and socio-political challenges as well as the better practices from which others could learn"--
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10.4324/9780429432699 doi
Coastal zone management--Case studies.
Coastal zone management--Law and legislation--Case studies.
ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
HT391 / .R3854 2021
333.91/7
"Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision makers across a broad spectrum of fields. Development pressures along coasts such as high-end tourism projects, luxury housing, ports, energy generation, military outposts, heavy industry and large-scale enterprise compete with landscape preservation and threaten local history and culture. Leading experts present fifteen case studies among advanced-economy countries, selected to represent three groups of legal contexts: signatories to the 2008 Mediterranean ICZM Protocol, parties to the 2002 EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and the USA and Australia. This book is the first to address the legal-regulatory aspects of coastal land management from a systematic cross-national comparative perspective. By including both successful and less-effective strategies, it aims to inform professionals, graduate students, policy makers, and NGOs of the legal and socio-political challenges as well as the better practices from which others could learn"--
9780429432699 electronic book 0429432690 electronic book 9780429779763 electronic book 0429779755 electronic book 9780429779749 electronic book 0429779763 electronic book 9780429779756 electronic book 0429779747 electronic book hardcover paperback
10.4324/9780429432699 doi
Coastal zone management--Case studies.
Coastal zone management--Law and legislation--Case studies.
ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
HT391 / .R3854 2021
333.91/7