Integrated Coastal Management - Science topic

Hey Jose!

I am not from the area, but there is a group working with integrated coastal management in Southern Brazilian coast that I could introduce to you, if there would be any names that you would like to get in touch. The first link below is about many works (dissertation) they have developed within the scope of coastal management. The second link is the address o the researchers that I know, in case you need some contacts. Finally, the third link is a guideline from Brazilian government on the instruments for integrated coastal management. It is in Portuguese, but I assume it would not be so hard to read.

Hope it helps.

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Here is a paper that I co-authored which talks about multilevel governance in terms of co-productive interactions between government and non-governmental actors.

"Rethinking Multilevel Governance as an Instance of Multilevel Politics: A Conceptual Strategy." Christopher Alcantara, Jörg Broschek, and Jen Nelles

Territory, Politics, Governance Vol. 4 , Iss. 1,2016

Good discussion! I understand that ICZM also involves policies, laws and institutions, but I think that it would be convenient to differentiate when a relevant government instance leads coastal management (ICM) from when government simply participates and support, coastal management (ICZM). Discussing what mean area or zone in Spanish and English, is indeed another interesting subject, but I am focusing in coastal management processes. I suggest that there are  two distinct processes that should be considered separate.

Sometimes, people just talking about things only for telling that they know about it without doing nothing and did not contribute their skill to implement the consept. I just hope people can share their experience and let other people lesson learned about what had people did.