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Question 1

What is the ICZM

Answer 1

coastal management planning over the long term, involving all stakeholders, working with natural processes and using ‘adaptive management’, i.e. changing plans as threats change.

Question 2

When was ICZM first created

Answer 2

ICZM is a holistic approach used to manage coasts. It dates from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992

Question 3

What is the extent of the ICZM

Answer 3

The entire coastal zone is managed, not just the narrow zone where breaking waves cause erosion and flooding. This includes all ecosystems, resources and human activity in the zone

Question 4

What does the ICZM recognise about jobs at the coastline

Answer 4

It recognises the importance of the coastal zone to people’s livelihoods as, globally, very large numbers of people live and work at the coast - but their activities tend to degrade the coastal environment.

Question 5

What does the ICZM recognise about the managment of the coastline

Answer 5

must be sustainable, meaning that economic development has to take place to improve the quality of life of people but that this needs be environmentally appropriate and equitable.

Question 6

Describe the ICZM

Answer 6

+The coastline can be divided up into littoral cells and each cell managed as an integrated unit.
+ In England and Wales there are 11 sediment cells.
+ Each cell is managed either as a whole unit or a sub-unit.
+ In both cases a plan called a Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) is used.
+The SMP area is further divided into sub-cells.
+ SMPs extend across council boundaries, so many councils must work together on an agreed SMP to manage an extended stretch of coastline

Question 7

Issues wiht ICZM?

Answer 7

Most local projects seem to involve ecological alteration of what is already there. So, does ICZM just mean changing our current lifestyles towards environmentalism?

Bottom-up needs and objections can be obvious to local people – but ICZM seems to be more of a top-down tool. What about the poorest communities?

Is the local scale still zoomed out too much? What about individual voice? – perception surveys go someway to take these into account (but answer still a collective).

If the coastline is seen as a commons (i.e. common property), what would be done with historical and cultural connections to the coast?

Varied geopolitical situation across Mediterranean makes collaboration more complex (consider varied national debt levels, culture differences, migration responsibility from Syria crisis etc.)