Integrated Coastal Management
From Post-Graduate to Professional Coastal Manager: A Teaching Manual
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Integrated Coastal Management
From Post-Graduate to Professional Coastal Manager: A Teaching Manual
Integrated coastal management is unquestionably important, but it’s extremely difficult in practice because it requires skills derived from various disciplines. In order to succeed, coastal managers must overcome disciplinary boundaries and construct a holistic vision that is both practical and unique to their profession. This manual provides university teachers with a three-module course to train professional coastal managers. As many students and teachers in this field are from the natural sciences, the focus is on embedding social science concepts and approaches into education for coastal management.
206 pages | 80 color plates | 7 x 9 1/2 | © 2011
Economics and Business: Economics--Agriculture and Natural Resources
Table of Contents
Introduction
Module 1: Social analysis of the coast—introducing human dimensions
Introduction
Session 1: Complex processes in coastal areas: exploring the need for social scientific and transdisciplinary approaches to coastal management
Session 2: Structures, processes and social actors
Session 3: Social actors and stakeholders
Session 4: Institutions, law and governance
Session 5: Rights and competing claims to natural resources
Session 6: Culture, local knowledge, and the valuation of different knowledge systems
Session 7: Livelihood, vulnerability and resilience
Session 8: Coastal governance, policy and management between the local and global
Literature Module 1
Module 2: Observations of human and natural dimensions of the coast
Introduction
Section A: Learning through observation
Section B: Observing to identify social and environmental components
Section C: Interpretation of observations
Concluding remarks
Exercises A1, A2, A3
Exercises B1, B2
Exercises C1, C2, C3, C4
Social Indicators Descriptions
Module 3: Understanding the coastal zone to develop integrated approaches
Introduction
Teaching considerations
Section 1: Stakeholder analysis
Section 2: Problem and objective tree analysis
Section 3: Monitoring and evaluating management
Concluding remarks
Exercises 1.1, 1.2
Exercises 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Exercises 3.1, 3.2
Appendices
1. Teacher’s Handbook
2. Student Handouts
Contributors