Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
David Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
National Leader ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Continuous Stream ◽  
Environmental Measures

This introductory chapter provides a background of California's geography. California's nickname “The Golden State” evokes a distinctive and unusually beautiful natural environment. Throughout its history, California's natural resources have been an important economic asset, with the state benefiting from its mountains of gold and silver, rapidly flowing rivers, thick forests, deposits of oil, and fertile agricultural lands. While its economy has since diversified, California remains the nation's largest agricultural producer and its third-largest oil producer. Compared to all other states as well as the federal government, California has been a national leader in regulatory policymaking on issues ranging from forestry management, scenic land protection, air pollution, and coastal zone management to energy efficiency and global climate change. Its distinctive geography, high degree of citizen mobilization, business support for many environmental measures, and steadily growing administrative capacity have produced a continuous stream of environmental policy innovations in multiple areas over a long period of time. This book draws upon these policies to explain why this particular state has consistently led the United States in adopting new environmental regulations and why being “greener” has become a central part of California's political identity.

Perceptions of the performance of state coastal zone management programs in the United States

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Knecht ◽  
Biliana Cicin‐Sain ◽  
Gregory W. Fisk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Zone Management

scholarly journals Shoreline Stabilization with Experimental Groin Field(s): Modular Adjustable Permeable Groins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas De Gennaro ◽  
Frank Gable
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wave Climate ◽  
Shoreline Stabilization ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Engineered Structures

This manuscript introduces prospective hard engineering solutions to continuous episodic erosional events on beaches utilized for recreation and tourism. The basis of this paper is information from a modeling study completed in 2011 on a two mile stretch of beach in South Carolina. The study utilized three alternative groin systems and a no groin option. The optimum spacing of the groin applications and the retention rate of a replenished beach at the location was determined based on running a computer model (Genesis) for the environmental conditions (wave climate, littoral transport, etc.) at the demonstration site. It was also determined that the innovative groin alternative presented in this paper would likely develop as the most effective cost/benefit relationship among the more conventional alternatives utilized in the United States. The experimental groin system (modular adjustable permeable groin(s) MAPG) was calculated to save initial construction costs by 25% to 30%as compared to the other alternatives. This was significant when considering that adjacent beach impacts are minimized and the beach berm is better protected over the typical beach re-nourishment cycle. This paper attempts to facilitate further discussion of regional sediment budget and (coastal zone) management by bridging the divide between choosing only sand nourishment vs. engineered structures. We demonstrate that reintroducing engineered structures in combination with beach nourishment can be a cost effective solution to episodic erosional events over time while allowing longshore sediment transport.

Shapefile for Coastal Zone Management Program counties of the United States and its territories, 2009 (CZMP_counties_2009.shp)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Hartwell ◽  
Dana K. Wingfield ◽  
Alan O. Allwardt ◽  
Florence L. Wong ◽  
Frances L. Lightsom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Zone Management

Virginia and Maryland, USA

2010 ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Marcia Berman ◽  
Catherine McCall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Management Structure ◽  
Chesapeake Bay Watershed ◽  
Zone Management

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the largest estuary in the United States, spans 62,000 square miles and includes six states and the District of Columbia. A stewardship agreement exists among the three primary states; Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania that calls for a commitment to implement regulation and uphold practices that maintain or improve the Bay’s ecosystem as a whole. To meet these and other coastal challenges Virginia and Maryland have independently developed Internet based products through which data, maps, and information are served. This chapter will summarize some of the highlights of each state’s coastal web atlas. The type and format of resources available through each site will be reviewed. The user community will be defined. And a brief description of the site management structure will be presented. Both efforts have been spear- headed and supported by the states’ Coastal Zone Management Program, a program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Delimitation of Lateral Seaward Boundaries Between States in a Domestic Context

1981 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan I. Charney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
Coastal State ◽  
Energy Impact ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Offshore Development

In 1976 the United States Congress established the Coastal Energy Impact Program (CEIP) for the purpose of giving financial assistance to those coastal states of the United States off whose shores resource development was being conducted on the outer continental shelf. The program was designed to alleviate the burden that offshore development was said to have placed on those coastal states. The enacting legislation stipulated that the states must comply with certain requirements of the Act in exchange for the distribution of federal funds. Although these funds were to be provided partly in the form of grants distributed on the basis of various statutory formulas, the largest amount of the grants was to be divided on the basis of adjacency. Thus, a coastal state would receive additional funds if the activity on the outer continental shelf took place in the area determined to be “adjacent” to that state. As a result, the geographical description of the areas “adjacent” to each coastal state had a direct impact on the amount of funds each state would realize from the program. Statutory provisions and the regulations required that adjacency be determined on the basis of lateral boundaries drawn in the ocean seaward from the coastal state. Those boundaries might already have been established on the basis of interstate agreements or court decisions. In the absence of such delimitations, the Assistant Administrator for Coastal Zone Management of the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was called upon to establish the “lateral seaward boundaries” on the basis of the international law applicable to lateral boundary delimitations. The “lateral seaward boundaries” so established by the Assistant Administrator would have no legal significance other than for CEIP purposes.

Governance in integrated coastal zone management: a social networks analysis of cross-scale collaboration

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA ERNOUL ◽  
ANGELA WARDELL-JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Integrated Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Management Protocol

SUMMARYThe Integrated Coastal Zone Management protocol of the Barcelona Convention sets governance objectives for countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. This protocol emphasizes collaborative approaches to acknowledge the role of local people in coastal management. Evaluating the quality of governance processes is critical if coastal zone values are to be effectively managed in times of global climate change. This study examined the structure and attributes of collaborative governance networks in two Mediterranean deltas, the Camargue (France) and Gediz Delta (Turkey). A deliberative social catchment sampling was used to target actors with physical, cultural, social or economic ties. Forty-five different organizations/professions were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire to identify the frequency and quality of contacts, information flows, and subject matter relevant to natural resource management. There were higher levels of degree centrality and reciprocal ties in the Camargue, while the Gediz Delta had a greater homogeneity of actors, with one centralized influential actor. Civil society played a greater role in the Camargue network, and government organizations were more central in the Gediz Delta. The differences between the two sites call into question the use of the same integrated management strategies and suggest the need to acknowledge the importance of existing governance models and relationships within local contexts.

COASTAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY OF VIETNAM: CURRENT PROBLEM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Lutaenko ◽  
Konstantin Lutaenko
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
Habitat Degradation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Storm Events ◽  
Species Introduction ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Coastal Marine

A brief overview of the coastal biodiversity of Vietnam based on surveys conducted by the A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences for last 35 years. Main problems related to threats to biodiversity are discussed on the example of the intertidal communities, coral reefs, and molluscan diversity. Threats to marine biodiversity in Vietnam are summarized as follows: habitat degradation, fragmentation and loss (especially important are mangrove forest destruction, loss of coral reefs, change in landscape mosaic of wetland, estuary, sand and mud flats); global climate change including sea level rise, storm events, rainfall pattern change, warming of the coastal ocean; effects of fishing and other forms of overexploitation; pollution and marine litter; species introduction/invasions; physical alterations of coasts; tourism. Consolidated data of Vietnamese and Russian researchers on biodiversity and coastal zone management can be used in interpretations of ecosystem changes and for development of recommendations for local/national decision-makers.

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