Geography Coastal Management

* People (currently 2.6 billion living within 100km of coastline) have always lived and worked by the coast, and visiting it.

* Coastal settlements built around

 Docks - A stretch of coast with specially built sea walls and deep water so that ships can come in to load and unload.

 Ports - A coastal town where ships and boats come and go

 Harbours - A sheltered part of a coastal town where ships and boats can safely shelter, load and unload. Often a harbour wall is built out to sea to prevent big waves coming in.

* Serve important economic functions and provide employment like container shipping, fishing, ferries and passenger liners

* Many people who live and work by the coast are involved in tourism.

* They own, run, or work in hotels, guest houses, caravan sites, self-catering cottages and bed and breakfast accommodation.

Greece

* 16,000km coastline, about 7000km made up by 1000 of islands of Greek archipelago

* 1400 islands, of which 227 are inhabited

* Maritime industry vital to country's economy

* Shipping consists of 4.5% of GDP, 4% workforce

* Greek-owned maritime fleet (containers, tankers) largest in the world- 18% of world's fleet capacity

* Mediterranean climate: major producer of olive oil

* Tourism is important for the country too

* Winter-sailing to experience island culture

* E.g. Spetses- home to century-old craftmanship of making wooden boats

* Thermal springs, yatching, monuments, fresh seafood, naval museum

Stakeholders

* The costs of installing hard structures for coastal protection are very high

* Strong negative public reaction often aggravate the problem

* This has led to uncertainty among managers and local government authorities