ABSTRACT
The problems of coastal zone management which are likely to emerge in the United Kingdom (UK) in the closing years of the 20th century are probably no more, and are certainly no less, than those which must be addressed by other industrialized coastal states. We have inherited problems from the less environmentally aware industrial entrepreneurs of an earlier age from which we have not yet found satisfactory solutions, nor have we found answers to all of those which we have generated in recent decades. In addition, the increasing complexity of our society continues to make greater demands on the space and resources around our shores. Just as these problems have grown and increased with time, so has the bureaucracy by which we try to control, cure and manage them.
