Assessing Socioeconomic Costs and Benefits of ICZM in the European Union

Abstract

A new methodology for the assessment of the costs and benefits of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is presented and applied across Europe. The methodology was developed from survey responses by the individual ICZM initiative managers, many from the European Commission's ICZM demonstration programs. Two broad classes of "low" and "high" level ICZM are identified and used in socioeconomic modeling. The methodology integrates qualitative and quantitative data to provide a means of estimating the net benefits of the application of ICZM on a European

Research on integrated coastal zone management from past to the future: a bibliometric analysis

“…In recent years, ecosystem service mapping has become an increasingly useful tool for providing information to management practice (Malinga et al, 2015). Meanwhile, ecosystem service value was applied in identifying good ICZM projects and establishing the welfare benefits of ICZM (Williams et al, 2006;Ghermandi, 2015). The emergence and development of ecosystem service in ICZM-related studies implied that the relationship between coastal ecosystems and human well-being has been emphatically considered in ICZM (Granek et al, 2010;Schernewski et al, 2018;Hietala et al, 2021).…”