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through coastal communities’ capacity to adapt using and improving their
ancestral practice of coastal zone management.
It is this very notion of “socio-ecosystem” and “ecosystem-based management” we wanted to illustrate a new approach, through concrete examples
and development models taken from both countries. Histories, traditions,
religions, customs, rules and laws rooted into the past form the settings and
frameworks in which develops the exploitation of natural resources. Our aim
is to contribute to bringing up new elements to light in order to make these
settings and frameworks evolve along the basic rules of Ecology – the ultimate truth – which depend not only on the existence of natural ecosystems,
but also on the populations who use them.
This book is intended to inform scientifi c communities, management
structures, decision-making bodies, and administrations of both countries and
others countries involved in the management of coastal ecosystems, as they
will have to necessarily and concretely face the covered issues in each
country- specifi c context. In this, our conferences’ major interest goes well
beyond their scientifi c purpose to reach the most important social and cultural
aspects in the way we enjoy and manage our coastal and marine goods and
services.
Marseille , France
Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi
Kashiwa-shi , Japan
Teruhisa Komatsu
Preface
through coastal communities’ capacity to adapt using and improving their
ancestral practice of coastal zone management.
It is this very notion of “socio-ecosystem” and “ecosystem-based management” we wanted to illustrate a new approach, through concrete examples
and development models taken from both countries. Histories, traditions,
religions, customs, rules and laws rooted into the past form the settings and
frameworks in which develops the exploitation of natural resources. Our aim
is to contribute to bringing up new elements to light in order to make these
settings and frameworks evolve along the basic rules of Ecology – the ultimate truth – which depend not only on the existence of natural ecosystems,
but also on the populations who use them.
This book is intended to inform scientifi c communities, management
structures, decision-making bodies, and administrations of both countries and
others countries involved in the management of coastal ecosystems, as they
will have to necessarily and concretely face the covered issues in each
country- specifi c context. In this, our conferences’ major interest goes well
beyond their scientifi c purpose to reach the most important social and cultural
aspects in the way we enjoy and manage our coastal and marine goods and
services.
Marseille , France
Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi
Kashiwa-shi , Japan
Teruhisa Komatsu
Preface