Towards sustainable coastal development : : institutionalizing integrated coastal zone management and coastal climate change adaptation in South Asia / / Tony George Puthucherril.

Coastal areas around the world are severely stressed due to a myriad of human activities and marine pollution. They are now detrimentally being affected by climate change and sea level rise as well. One major theater most acutely impacted by these phenomena is coastal South Asia, an overcrowded regi...

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Superior document:Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development, Volume 20
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Legal aspects of sustainable development ; Volume 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (510 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Threatened Coasts, Communities and Ecosystems: The Need for Integrated Coastal Zone Management
  • 3 Coastal Laws, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia
  • 4 Understanding Sustainable Coastal Development
  • 5 Linking Coastal Climate Change Adaptation to an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Process for Sustainable Coastal Development
  • 6 Coastal Law, ICZM and Adapting to Sea Level Rise
  • 7 Law in the Service of ICZM and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation
  • 8 A Regional Regime for ICZM and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia
  • 9 A Principled Approach to Sustainable Coastal Development in South Asia
  • 10 Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.