THE INTEGRATED COASTAL MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH PROJECT: UNCOVERING WHAT AFFECTS PROCESS SUSTAINABILITY
Tanggal : 2004-02-20
Considerable interest surrounds integrated coastal management (ICM). Within the developing world, ICM is perhaps most advanced in Southeast Asia. ICM focuses on encouraging sustainable coastal resource use through an iterative process of regulation and policy development, institutional coordination, and education. While recognized as a useful planning process to improve the social and ecological conditions in coastal areas, generally ICM has not been sustainable beyond external financial and technical support. This two-year research project is currently studying, in a multidisciplinary manner, the sustainability of ICM activities in the Philippines and Indonesia after formal project termination. This presentation will describe the research design, which uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study economic, institutional, social, legal and ecological dimensions of ICM sustainability. Initial results from research conducted in 2001 in the Philippines will be presented. Findings regarding stable financial mechanisms, institutional and legal harmonization, and community responses to ICM will be highlighted. Plans for research in Indonesia for 2002 will be presented...
