ICZM Protocols to Regional Seas Conventions: What? Why? How?

Julien Rochette and Raphaël Billé

Marine Policy, 2012, vol. 36, issue 5, 977-984

Abstract: The regionalisation of international environmental law has emerged as one of the most important legal trends of the last decades. However, the regulation of coastal management stood apart from this trend for a long time; indeed, while integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) projects have developed at all scales, legal regulation of ICZM has long been confined to the national and sub-national levels. This is not the case any longer: recent developments in ICZM implementation demonstrate an increasing interest in regional regulation through the adoption of specific protocols within regional seas frameworks. The article aims at taking stock of these recent initiatives, specially focusing on the Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean (WIO) regions. It demonstrates that an ICZM Protocol can be a strategic lever to address coastal issues only if certain conditions for its elaboration and implementation are effectively met.

Keywords: Integrated coastal zone management; Protocol; Regional seas conventions; Mediterranean; Western Indian Ocean; Legal regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.02.014

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