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Evolution of latin american approaches to integrated coastal management (ICM): paths, outcomes, and governance baselines
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Abstract(s)
Latin America is a mosaic of social, economic, political and environmental
realities where thousands of ICM efforts have been implemented, and only a few
successful cases have been documented. This thesis focuses on governance of the
coastal zone, and identifies and synthesizes the evolution of approaches to Integrated
Coastal Management (ICM) in Latin America, and puts into such context the
Governance Baselines methodology. In order to achieve such objective, and as no ICM
classification framework has been developed to the best understanding of its author, this
thesis proposes the SALM ICM evolution path classification based on observations
derived from its preparation process. Derivated from LOICZ Priority Topic 3 ?Linking
Governance and Science in Coastal Regions?, the Governance Baselines methodology
has been successfully implemented in several contexts ? i.e. protected areas, urbanized
coasts, and rural, multiple use estuaries? in both high- and low-income Latin American
countries. This thesis found that success of ICM management efforts tends to depend on
the extent to which management efforts are able to integrate all four GESAMP-defined
institutional or 1st Order outcomes ?unambiguous goals, constituencies, formal
commitment, and institutional capacity?, and turn them into outcomes of superior order;
particularly the systematically neglected and critical conduct and use changes in the
behavior of institutions, individuals, groups, businesses and investments ? 2nd Order?,
are i) the essence and drivers of environmental and socioeconomic benefits ?3rd Order
outcomes?, and, even more, ii) the cause of the threatens to the coastal zone.
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Dissertação mest., Gestão da Água e da Costa, Universidade do Algarve, 2010
Keywords
Teses Zona costeira Gestão costeira