Long description:

Coasts emerge where land, water, and air meet. Coastal areas are often renowned for their particular cultural histories, resource abundance and economic wealth, their biological productivity and biodiversity, and scenic beauty. Coasts are also ecologically highly vulnerable. Multiple uses tied to a plethora of interests often generate conflict. Preserving the richness of coastal areas and their economic functions requires comprehensive management schemes. Coastal Management needs to be designed so as to enable ecologically sustainable coastal development, socioeconomic well-being, and social justice.

Coastal Management Revisited: Navigating Towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations presents an account of twenty plus years of research on coasts, oceans and small islands, linking social and ecological systems, in close collaboration with natural scientists, managers, policy makers and the local populations involved. Integrated and sustainable coastal management is multi-facetted, greatly issue-dependent and has, during its history, followed different trends and paths. The authors address challenges to society - to coastal management in particular - that have been generated by human activity in both temperate and tropical environments. Ultimately, the book describes the maturation of a field.

• Includes studies in temperate (Sweden, Germany) and tropical (Brazil, Indonesia) regions
• Explores diverse and changing issues, ranging from conflict resolution to governance at multiple levels, natural disasters and climate change, ethical-political perspectives, and coastal and ocean typologies.
• Presents six sections, all with a focus on coastal human-nature relations: Conceptual framings, Methods to approach human-nature dynamics, Navigating scales - temperate and tropical cases, Ethics and governance, and Linking research to governance.
• Includes specific themes such as, multi-level analysis; participatory management, measuring sustainability, multi-agent modelling; sustainable coastal management; political insights from national cases, a coast and ocean strategy, the spatial planning approach; coastal and marine social-ecological typologies

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: Conceptual framings for the Human-Nature Relation 1. The social dimension in ecosystem management: Strengths and weaknesses of human-nature mind maps 2. The social dimension of social-ecological management 3. The changing human-nature relationships in the context of Global Environmental Change 4. Towards global sustainability analysis in the Anthropocene

PART TWO: Methods to approach human-nature dynamics 5. Social-ecological systems analysis in coastal and marine areas: A path toward integration of interdisciplinary knowledge 6. Nested participation in hierarchical societies? Lessons for social-ecological research and management 7. Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems 8. Transdisciplinary multi-agent modelling for social-ecological systems analysis: Achievements and Potentials

PART THREE: Navigating scales - Temperate and tropical cases 9. Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Sweden: Assessing Conflicts to Attain Sustainability 10. Coastal Management and Sustainability in Baltic East Germany: Learning from Scandinavia? 11. Linking Partners in Joint Coastal Management Research: Strategies toward Sustainability 12. The Social Science Responses to New Challenges for the Coast 13. Ecosystem, local economy and social sustainability: A case study of Caeté estuary, North Brazil 14. Local vulnerability as an advantage: Mangrove forest management in Pará state, North Brazil under conditions of illegality 15. Global change and coastal threats: The Indonesian case 16. Of exploited reefs and fishers - a holistic view on participatory coastal and marine management in an Indonesian Archipelago

PART FOUR: Ethics and governance 17. Beyond natural hazard maps: Ethical and political perspectives 18. National strategies 19. The future of coastal areas. Challenges for planning practice and research 20. Decentralization and participation in integrated coastal management: Policy lessons from Brazil and Indonesia

PART FIVE: Outlook - Linking research to governance 21 Cross scale and multi-level analysis of coastal and marine social-ecological systems dynamics 22 From global sustainability research matrix to typology: A tool to analyze coastal and marine social-ecological systems