Regulating Coastal Zones

<p><em>Regulating Coastal Zones</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>