Coasts

Coastal governance and management

As was emphasised in previous SoE reports (e.g. SoE 2011), coastal management in Australia is carried out using a range of approaches by multiple levels of government.
2016
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Coasts
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Great Barrier Reef
Coasts

Integrated coastal management frameworks

Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is the process for managing all coastal issues in a framework integrated across biota and habitats, time and space, and levels of government.
2016
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Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Coasts

Cumulative impacts and management of multiple uses

Cumulative impacts management is the process of determining the desired future state of an ecosystem, and how this will be achieved through control of developments that may have direct, indirect or interactive impacts on that ecosystem (
2016
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Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Great Barrier Reef
Coasts

Risk-based methods for prioritising management

Authorities charged with managing the coast are increasingly adopting risk-based methods to inform decision-making.
2016
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Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Greater Sydney
Coasts

Recent developments

There have been some recent developments in the approach and tools for coastal management, including emerging analytical methods for decision-making, and conservation at multiple levels of biodiversity.
2016
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Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Clark GF, Johnston EL (2016). Coasts: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/coasts/topics?framework=116, DOI 10.4226/94/58b659bdc758b