Cuadrado Quesada, Gabriela and Klenke, Thomas and Mejía-Ortíz, Luis Manuel (2018) Regulatory challenges in realizing integrated coastal management—lessons from Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico and South Africa. Sustainability, 10 (10). p. 3772. ISSN 2071-1050

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Abstract

Integrated coastal management (ICM) has been considered worldwide to be a suitable approach to realizing comprehensive schemes to protect or develop coastal regions. A complex regulatory system stretching from international to local levels provides a framework for ICM practices. This raises the question whether and to what extent ICM practices have been supported by legal and policy frameworks at the international and national levels in different settings in both developed and developing countries. This paper examines four case studies in Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico and South Africa. Two research methods were used. First, a document-based analysis was conducted in two parts: a literature review of the content of ICM, and a policy and law analysis of the jurisdictions of the four case studies and at the international level (i.e., treaties and declarations). Second, a qualitative analysis was conducted based on in-depth interviews involving 21 decision-makers representing all the case studies. With a view to enhance the effective use of international and national legal and policy instruments and their implementation in a more local site specific context, this study considers four principles currently guiding ICM practices: (i) incorporation of international instruments’ principles in national legal and policy frameworks, (ii) participation, (iii) sustainable development and (iv) monitoring. An I-P-S ((I) incorporation of international instruments’ principles in national frameworks, (P) participation (S) sustainable development) diagram is used for an integrative assessment of ICM and indicates directions for further improvements at the case study sites. The embeddedness of ICM into national legal and policy frameworks is a success factor for ICM, however, it is often limited due to a lack of implementation. Furthermore, ICM can easily be jeopardized if ICM is allocated a marginalized position.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publiziert mit Hilfe des DFG-geförderten Open Access-Publikationsfonds der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sustainability; participation; implementation; policy; law; comparative study
Subjects:	Science and mathematics > Earth sciences and geology Science and mathematics > Life sciences, biology
Divisions:	Scientific Centers > COAST- Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2019 10:55
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2019 08:30
URI:	https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/4194
URN:	urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-42757
DOI:	doi:10.3390/su10103772
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