Journal article
Key lessons from new perspectives on Australian coastal management
Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol.239, pp.1-6
2023
Abstract
Approaches to Australian coastal management are constantly changing yet continue to fall short of in terms of social-ecological resilience. We provide a commentary on contemporary Australian coastal management issues and responses, informed by a selection of papers that were invited for a Special Issue of this journal following the Australian Coastal Society's 2021 national coastal conference. The selected papers were categorised into three groupings: 1) coastal governance; 2) coastal threats and adaptation; and 3) coastal processes. They were then analysed in the context of both the unique Australian federated approach to coastal management and the international literature on coastal management. A number of findings and themes emerge. First, the paper confirms previous findings on a lack of federal leadership in Australian coastal management and lack of action on recommendations from numerous national coastal inquiries. The paper concludes that: there has been a significant reduction of coastal expertise in the federal public service; there is a lack of a well-defined broad-based federal funding mechanism for coastal management; there is a need to incorporate a sediment compartment approach in both Australian coastal planning and climate adaptation strategies; a number of coastal management instruments at the State level appear not fit for purpose; and coastal adaptation faces conflicts in balancing property rights with public coastal amenity.
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- Title
- Key lessons from new perspectives on Australian coastal management
- Authors
- Nick Harvey (Corresponding Author) - University of AdelaideTimothy F. Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Centre
- Publication details
- Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol.239, pp.1-6
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106581
- ISSN
- 1873-524X
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Centre; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99716034102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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