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Governing the land-sea interface to achieve sustainable coastal development
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Singh, GG and Cottrell, RS and Eddy, TD and Cisneros-Montemayor, AM, Governing the land-sea interface to achieve sustainable coastal development, Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 Article 709947. ISSN 2296-7745 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.709947
Abstract
Coastal regions are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
given their importance for human habitation, resource provisioning, employment, and
cultural practice. They are also regions where different ecological, disciplinary, and
jurisdictional boundaries both overlap and are obscured. We thus propose the landsea
interface as areas where governance systems are most in need of frameworks
for systems analysis to meet the SDGs—which are inherently interconnected— and
integrate complex interdependencies between human livelihoods, energy, transport,
food production, and nutrient flows (among others). We propose a strategic landsea
governance framework built on the sustainable transitions literature to plan for
governance to achieve sustainable development across the land-sea interface. To
illustrate our proposal, we compare governance planning processes across four casebased
scenarios: an industrialized coastal country, a least developed coastal country, a
developing coastal country with local dependencies on ocean resources, and a small
island developing state primarily dependent on tourism. Through the lens of aligning
governance actors and actions vertically (subnational to national), horizontally (across
sectors), and programmatically (from goals to implementation), we propose scales at
which governance systems may be misaligned, such as where different agencies that
affect marine systems have conflicting visions and goals, leading to stalled progress or
counterproductive actions. Where possible, we also highlight strategies to align across
scales of high level strategic policy, tactical scale institutional mandates and cooperation,
and on the ground activities and operations, such as aligning actors based on an
analysis of interdependencies of goals.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | sustainable development, land-sea links, terrestrial, marine, management, land-sea interface, transition management, sustainable development goals, governance, policy alignment, coastal systems |
Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Environmental management |
Research Field: | Environmental management not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Marine systems and management |
Objective Field: | Marine systems and management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Cottrell, RS (Dr Richard Cottrell) |
ID Code: | 150443 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 9 |
Deposited By: | Ecology and Biodiversity |
Deposited On: | 2022-06-15 |
Last Modified: | 2022-07-28 |
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