Integrated Coastal Zone Management Flashcards
Aim
The ICZM is the process that brings together all of those involved in the department, management and use of the coast.
The aim is to:
Establish sustainable levels of economic and social activity.
Resolve environmental, social and economic challenges and conflicts.
Protect the coastal environment.
What is it
The move to adopt an ICZM strategy means that complete sections of coasts are now being managed as a whole, rather than by individual towns or villages. This is because human actions in one place affect other places further along the coast.
Essentially, this is because of the transfers (flows) within the sediment cell, moving sediment from one place to another. What is eroded in one location eventually becomes a protective beach somewhere else. Stop the erosion in one place and sediment is starved somewhere else - the problem is not so much solved as shifted.
