Lessons from regional approaches to coastal management in Australia: a synthesis
RIS ID
76959
Abstract
This synthesis reflects on the ways in which multiple viewpoints and knowledge types, including biophysical and socioeconomic science, lay, managerial and Indigenous knowledge, can be used by stakeholders and decision-makers seeking to achieve coastal sustainability in Australia. It draws primarily on a review of coastal management across Australia, international experience in coastal management and four Australian regional studies of coastal management Derwent and Huon estuaries in Tasmania; South-east Queensland (SEQ); Ningaloo in Western Australia; and the Great Barrier Reef. The regional studies present a range of contexts for the management of the tensions among social, cultural, ecological and economic attributes and uses of the coast. These tensions are longstanding but have become more urgent in the context of addressing the expected effects of climate change.
Publication Details
R. Ambrose. Kenchington, L. Stocker & D. Wood, 'Lessons from regional approaches to coastal management in Australia: a synthesis' in R. Ambrose. Kenchington, L. Stocker & D. Wood(ed), Sustainable Coastal Management and Climate Adaptation: Global Lessons from Regional Approaches in Australia (2012) 193-209.