The Coral Triangle, available at http://www.adb.org/news/photo-essays/coral-triangle-book, is a 272-page book that showcases the people, places, and marine ecosystems that make this region truly remarkable. Published by ADB and the World Wide Fund for Nature, the book documents an 18-month expedition by award-winning photographer Jürgen Freund and Stella-Chiu Freund. Searching for "coastal ecosystems" and/or "marine ecosystems" at http://www.adb.org/ brings up numerous related links.

Hi,

here is a good paper that evaluates the success of small-scale fisheries management worldwide. Good place to start, my guess is that similar factors will be important for coastal management in general. Article is attached.

From my experience, a key obstacle in (integrated) coastal management are strictly sectorial policies without a holistic perspective, overlapping responsibilities and lack of communication between government agencies and finally, a lack of inclusion of users of the coastal zone in a proper decision-making process. I have no specific article at hand but I recommend the book on Integrated Coastal Zone Management by Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert Knecht

Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management: Concepts And Practices (Constraints Management).

A bit old maybe, but quite good.

Joint Ecosystem Management involving local people.

JFM is very successful. Also ICZM is another good approach

Thank you for your effective collaboration and answers

Good luck

Dear researcher Kies,

As I Involved in professional graduate academic University Teaching and Research in Department of Coastal and Marine Fisheries, I here put some elements concerning the local, regional and international perspectives (However you of course have the right to not agree with my opinions). You may considered the followings (may not be suitable for everyone)

- Evaluating and valuation of the Ecosystem service particularly Mangrove ecosystems and estuarine ecosystems (these may be qualitative or quantitaive).

- Management of salt marches, lagoons, tidal flats

- Management of seaweeds, seagrass systems and Coral reefs. 

- Management of pollution

- Evaluating the standard of Responsible practice by the stakeholder or the managing organization as a whole. 

- Utilization of the diversified  approaches of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) that may be includes the followings 

- Understanding the Coastal ecosystem, Marine ecosystem their interaction and interrelationships, different systems and regulating forces (eg Oceanic tides, waves and currents, Oceanic sediments) including Marine Biology and Resources. 

- Understanding Land-sea interaction, boundaries and extent of coastal zone, zoning of coastal areas. 

-Understanding Coastal natural resource system: land, water, animal and forest resources, critical habitat resources, ecological issues and productivity.

- Understanding Coastal human resource systems: coastal livelihood, demography, poverty, social dynamics, assets and vulnerabilities including Sustainable livelihood approach.

- Mobilization of coastal people for mangrove management, training of stakeholders.

- Participatory coastal resource management: community based and community participated management, fisheries co-management, linkage with different organizations and stakeholders, result-oriented monitoring and evaluation.

Sorry for includes such long answer.

Please go through these.

Best of Luck.

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Dear Colleagues,

Here is my new paper. https://popups.uliege.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=9493

Kind regards

Fatima