Inclusive development and coastal adaptiveness

- The problems of demographic concentration and climate change result in an appeal for new coastal governance strategies.
- Much of the coastal zone management literature tends to take a technocratic, growth-oriented focus.
- A technocratic, growth-oriented focus exacerbates the poor's relationship with ecosystem services in the developing world.
- In the developed world it may lead to artificial 'problem structuring' and the 'depoliticization'.
- Only if both social and ecological issues are taken into account will coastal strategies be truly inclusive and sustainable.