Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts: Methods, Tools, and Technologies

Connections: Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts.- Why this book is needed.- Planning for Coasts and Oceans.- Managing of coastal and ocean environments.- "Walk through".- How this book can be used.- Definitions and Fundamental Concepts.- When? Historical considerations.- Who? Institutions and Legal Considerations.- What? Planning and management principles.- Why? Special Challenges.- New Horizons.- Coasts and Oceans physical and socio economic characteristics.- Climate Change Impacts.- Mitigation, adaptation, resilience.- Ocean Development.- Coastal Megacities.- Rivers and Inland Water bodies.- Principles of Integration.- What is integration and why is it important?.- Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- Integrated Marine Planning.- Integrated Watershed Planning.- Ecosystem based Management.- What this approach means.- Coastal ecoSystem-based management.- Marine ecosystem based management.- Implementation.- Ecosystem Services.- Overview.- The Services.- ES Assessment.- Assessment Methods.- Coastal Tourism Planning.- Overview.- Socio economic considerations.- Coastal Ecotourism.- Public Participation.- Marine Spatial Planning.- Marine Protected Areas.- Decision Support Tools.- Water Sensitive Urban Development.- Case Study I.- Case Study II.- Case Study III.