Major coastal management and planning techniques

This chapter provides an overview of a number of tools used by coastal managers. It presents a balanced view of management tools available – not just the technical ones. Administrative, social and cultural management techniques are equally part of the modern coastal manager's toolkit. The major techniques are grouped into administrative, social and technical. This grouping is undertaken to highlight the similarity between some techniques. If the organisation's primary functions are administrative, then a capacity building program will focus for example on improving skills in various administrative functions, policy formulation and strategic planning. Planning process, especially the production of plans with a broad strategic focus, can enable the incorporation of measures to address some of the legislative and administrative constraints to the production of project-by-project environmental impact assessments (EIAs). The chapter discusses the techniques of monitoring and evaluation, which constitute part of all coastal management and planning techniques.