Professional Documents
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Denis Bailly
UMR-AMURE, Center for Law and Economics of the Sea
University of Brest (UBO)
France
Resources
The Project tests and improves the SAF at eighteen Study Site
Applications (SSAs) all over Europe representing the diversity of
coasts that differ in geomorphology, environmental conditions,
cultures, and human activities.
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renewable resources, so theoretically sustainable if the pressures
are wisely managed within the limits of these resources.
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commons in the sense that without strong political will and societal
commitment to collective stewardship, the range of existing and
expanding private rights over space and resources cannot, alone,
fulfill in effective ways the objectives of a balanced development,
economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally
sustainable. Increase in threats and vulnerability from any of these
dimensions immediately reveals that they are closely interconnected.
ICZM as a governance reform to make the “coast” exist for its own
needs in the minds of people and power structure of institutions is
certainly one of the many “policy problems” that social science can
help explore and implement as part of these partnerships with local
authorities and communities beyond small demonstration projects.
Though a mix of regulatory and incentive based new impulse will
probably be needed for that to happen in Europe.