Integrated coastal zone management: bridging the land-water divide ...

• Main Authors: Ouellette, Marc, Hardy, Matthew
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2010 - Theme session B 2024
• Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Arctic; Canada; Pacific
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25068197.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Integrated_coastal_zone_management_bridging_the_land-water_divide/25068197/1

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The coastal zone is an area of high ecological complexity and productivity given its intrinsic connectivity between habitats and processes of freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems. It is also an area of complex anthropogenic interactions with variable social, economic, and cultural components. Furthermore, it is the zone where aquatic ecosystems are the most vulnerable to cumulative pressures caused by human activities of various types and intensity, where management lies within a complex jurisdictional backdrop. Thus, the coastal zone is a complex mosaic of variable zones of influences and ecosystem component vulnerabilities along the landwater interface. Canada is a maritime nation. It is bordered by the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans, it has the world’s longest coastline (at ca. 244 000 km), and also borders interior freshwater ”seas”, the Great Lakes. Eight out of our ten provinces border oceans, as do our three Territories. ...