ABSTRACT
How do we operationalize and implement integration and inclusion in coastal zone management? This and the following two chapters outline some principles and techniques for decision-making to support integrated and inclusionary management and its institutional dimensions. This hybrid set of techniques and procedures is brought together as trade-off analysis. Current coastal zone management practices are evolving, learning from past successes and failures. At a conceptual level it is clear that macro-institutional structures, operational behaviour of management organizations and the informal institutions of collective behaviour must be taken into account at all stages of management to ensure integration and inclusion. Indeed, the importance of adopting integrated and inclusive policy is a recurrent theme in modern coastal zone management. But few operational tools bring together human systems and ecological systems, or manage qualitative and quantitative data simultaneously. The trade-off analysis approach tackles these dilemmas by supporting decisions based on principles of inclusion, integration and legitimacy.
