Session 8 ■ Coastal governance, policy and management between the local and global
Thus, governance, policy and management issues can no longer be analyzed in the framework of discretely bounded national states only. The concept of ‘globalization’ helps us in coming to grips with these new realities (Figure 12) (Box 12). However, there are two sides to globalization: to understand what is going on in coastal regions we must not only be aware of the new global forces influencing coastal settings, but also of the new, varied and often unexpected processes set in motion and new conditions created in specific coastal localities. Any framework for coastal management should take into account these increasingly complex processes with uncertain outcomes. They create new social, economic and political networks and relationships involving complex interactions between the local and the global, public and private domains, and producers, traders and consumers all over the world.
Session 8 Aims This session aims to: ■ Make students aware of the need to analyze, discuss, devise and practice coastal zone governance, policy and management from a perspective that takes into accounts multiple private and public actors and institutions at different levels of socio-political organization.
Session 8 Learning outcomes Key learning/teaching points (see teacher’s note 11) for this session: ■ Students are aware of the links between practices of governance, policy and management to processes of globalization, and aware of the role of globalization in coastal resource management.
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