Overview
- Explores ways to achieve new forms of governance for sustainable development
- Discusses the conflict between scientific objectivity and socioeconomic subjectivity
- Provides case studies of socioeconomic valuation of a body of water while integrating multidisciplinary inputs
- Offers a perspective of natural heritage conservation versus economic development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Addressing the links between science and the real world with a sound scientific baseline, Coastal Water Bodies targets researchers of various disciplines whose interest lies in the integrated sustainable management of coastal water bodies. The main topic of this book is not the ecology according to its accepted meaning, but rather the ‘places and people’ concerned – the coastal zones of the Mediterranean that are rich in ecological value and the local people who survive thanks to these environmental resources.
Integration is the joint consideration of different aspects of water uses and values, and new ways of understanding and managing conflicts around water use are needed if people are to benefit from integration. Sustainability of the ecological and socioeconomic environments requires a climate in which conflicts, if they need to exist, are properly managed in a non-destructive manner.
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Book Title: Coastal Water Bodies
Book Subtitle: Nature and Culture Conflicts in the Mediterranean
Editors: Felicita Scapini, Gabriele Ciampi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8854-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8853-6Published: 30 April 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9091-9Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8854-3Published: 20 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 167
Topics: Environmental Management, Coastal Sciences, Ecology, Geography, general, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Life Sciences, general