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- Requirement of innovative integrated coastal zone management curriculum at postgraduate professional level education in IndiaPublication . Karuppiah, Subramanian; Newton, AliceThis study examines the requirement of innovative Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) curriculum at postgraduate professional education, and identifies the potential professional skills required for the coastal managers in India especially in Tamil Nadu region. This need is essential because, coastal zones in Tamil Nadu are under risk due to carious natural and human impacts, and conflicts between multi-users. The recent Tsunami in December 2004, has led coastal communities into vulnerable, poverty, unemployment and health problems. The sectoral management approaches are often seem to be as singlesector service oriented (Cicin-Sain et al., 2000; Tissier et al., 2004) and proved incapable to deliver ICZM project effectively in Tamil Nadu. Thus, managing coastal challenges requires skilled professionals with a mixed-knowledge across the disciplines. This research work is apart of an ongoing curriculum development project based on ICZM at higher professional education in India. Results and discussion are based on the filed work carried out to identify the potential skills required for the coastal managers in Tamil Nadu. This study evaluates coastal threats and challenges in India. It describes the state of higher professional education in coastal and marine science degrees. A discussion of global efforts and solutions provided by the scholars and international agencies on ICZM education and training are discussed. This study describes the coastal zone management and ICZM education trend in India. A detailed discussion has presented on the requirement of innovative ICZM curriculum, and potential professional skills to addressing the coastal challenges and delivering ICZM programs efficiently in Tamil Nadu. Finally, this study has presented possible solutions with the balanced curriculum that need to be addressed in the ICZM education for best practices at higher professional education in Tamil Nadu.