Sustainable cooperation as the challenge for a new coastal management paradigm |
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Authors: | Climis A Davos |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, 90024 Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | Coastal management is a collective action. As such, it depends for its effective implementation on the cooperation of a multitude
of stakeholders, i.e. civic organizations, economic interest groups, environmental groups, governmental agencies, scientists
and other individuals. Where ‘effective implementation’ implies the achievement of targeted objectives within targeted time
horizons and ‘cooperation’ connotes that stakeholders elect to pursue cooperative strategies that may yield higher gains for
all stakeholders instead of competitive strategies that may maximize individual benefits. Thus, the fundamental challenge
of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) is to maximize the effectiveness of this management by maximizing and sustaining stakeholder
cooperation. I submit that sustainable cooperation can be maximized and nurtured for its voluntariness only by a process-oriented,
cooperative CZM. The alternative, outcome-oriented, normative CZM can force, directly or indirectly, cooperation but it cannot
sustain it. My purpose in this paper, is to highlight arguments supporting this view as well as the analytical challenges
of cooperative ICZM. Certain points are also viewed in the light of preliminary findings of a research project designed to
probe these challenges. |
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Keywords: | Decision-making Equity Integrated Coastal Zone Management Questionnaire Stakeholder Value discourse |
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