VI
Preface
Furthermore, this book intends to provide insights in, generally spoken, coastal water
management and their interrelationships for policymakers and managers in coastal zones.
Although the spatial focus of this book lies in the Southern North Sea Region, the examples
and description should provide relevant information and basic findings on processes (either
natural or human) and approaches that could be applied elsewhere.
Last but not least this book may also be read by people who gained long experiences
in the coastal zone but would be challenged by a different view at the coast.
Structure This book is divided into eight chapters. It starts with a short description of
the context of this book dealing with the coast. What is the coast and how men prepared
the area to be able to live and work here. Afterwards, a brief overview about the historical
development of ICZM is provided. Sometimes it is difficult to exactly determine a starting
point because the idea of an integrated approach starts somewhere and emerges over time
at different places. Here, the starting point for the integrated management approach of
coasts is set in the developments around the San Francisco Bay in the USA and the first
steps taken at the Port Phillip Bay in Australia near Melbourne.
In Chap. 3 basics of ICZM will be explained and discussed as there will be a list of
selected definitions of the term ICZM. ICZM will have to be enlivened so basic principles
need to be developed and discussed. The reflection will show that these principles are a
combination of different relevant processes and approaches for integration.
Chapter 4 summarizes hydrological aspects which are important to know when dealing
with the coast. It serves as knowledge base for the following chapters.
In Chap. 5 current challenges in the coastal zone of the Southern North Sea Region will
be elaborated. The description is focused on water management, encompassing coastal
defense (protection), drainage management and river management. The limitation to the
water sector is a tribute to the amount of space of this book. To touch all different sectors
and interests in the coastal zone would have been too ambitious. On the one hand, it is
striven to elaborate the water chapters in a way that the basic idea of how to treat other
sectors will be clear. On the other hand, the water sector is one of the important and basic
sectors to enable life and work in the coastal zone (see Sects. 5.1 and 5.4).
Subsequently, existing approaches of integration in the water sector are shown in
Chap. 6. Although promising starting points exist there is still a lot to do.
This chapter is followed by the description of a methodological toolbox to enable
an integrated management approach (Chap. 7). Those sections should be understood as
suggestions and references for the identification of available and adequate methods.
Chapter 8 comprises real-world case studies which could be used to apply the tools
and methods touched in the previous chapters.
The book will hopefully stimulate and encourage the reader to further work on and
support the integration of different sectors in coastal zone development. Eventually the
basic idea of applying or implementing ICZM is the aspiration or even achievement of
sustainable development of the coastal zone. At the end of each chapter or a respective
subsection the exercise questions will motivate to derive a deeper insight of a specific
theme.
Preface
Furthermore, this book intends to provide insights in, generally spoken, coastal water
management and their interrelationships for policymakers and managers in coastal zones.
Although the spatial focus of this book lies in the Southern North Sea Region, the examples
and description should provide relevant information and basic findings on processes (either
natural or human) and approaches that could be applied elsewhere.
Last but not least this book may also be read by people who gained long experiences
in the coastal zone but would be challenged by a different view at the coast.
Structure This book is divided into eight chapters. It starts with a short description of
the context of this book dealing with the coast. What is the coast and how men prepared
the area to be able to live and work here. Afterwards, a brief overview about the historical
development of ICZM is provided. Sometimes it is difficult to exactly determine a starting
point because the idea of an integrated approach starts somewhere and emerges over time
at different places. Here, the starting point for the integrated management approach of
coasts is set in the developments around the San Francisco Bay in the USA and the first
steps taken at the Port Phillip Bay in Australia near Melbourne.
In Chap. 3 basics of ICZM will be explained and discussed as there will be a list of
selected definitions of the term ICZM. ICZM will have to be enlivened so basic principles
need to be developed and discussed. The reflection will show that these principles are a
combination of different relevant processes and approaches for integration.
Chapter 4 summarizes hydrological aspects which are important to know when dealing
with the coast. It serves as knowledge base for the following chapters.
In Chap. 5 current challenges in the coastal zone of the Southern North Sea Region will
be elaborated. The description is focused on water management, encompassing coastal
defense (protection), drainage management and river management. The limitation to the
water sector is a tribute to the amount of space of this book. To touch all different sectors
and interests in the coastal zone would have been too ambitious. On the one hand, it is
striven to elaborate the water chapters in a way that the basic idea of how to treat other
sectors will be clear. On the other hand, the water sector is one of the important and basic
sectors to enable life and work in the coastal zone (see Sects. 5.1 and 5.4).
Subsequently, existing approaches of integration in the water sector are shown in
Chap. 6. Although promising starting points exist there is still a lot to do.
This chapter is followed by the description of a methodological toolbox to enable
an integrated management approach (Chap. 7). Those sections should be understood as
suggestions and references for the identification of available and adequate methods.
Chapter 8 comprises real-world case studies which could be used to apply the tools
and methods touched in the previous chapters.
The book will hopefully stimulate and encourage the reader to further work on and
support the integration of different sectors in coastal zone development. Eventually the
basic idea of applying or implementing ICZM is the aspiration or even achievement of
sustainable development of the coastal zone. At the end of each chapter or a respective
subsection the exercise questions will motivate to derive a deeper insight of a specific
theme.