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Thesis (M. Env. St.)--University of Adelaide, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-173).

Thesis (M.T.P.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Architecture, 1978.

Thesis (M.T.P.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Architecture, 1978.

Diss.-- Univ. of Oldenburg. / In Springer Link (Monographies électroniques). Versement en lot.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

As population pressures rise there are associated increases in development, resource use, competition and environmental threats. These increases, contribute to the intensification of conflict within the coastal zone. Dispute resolution techniques must be incorporated into the management of coastal resources. Negotiation use is one means of dispute resolution. The goal of this thesis is to establish whether and how negotiation is used in coastal zone management. Two bodies of literature were reviewed. Literature on North American coastal zone management was examined to characterize management approaches with particular reference to the FREMP and the PSWQA. Literature on negotiation was reviewed to develop a framework for analyzing the use of negotiation in resolving coastal zone management conflicts. The FREMP and PSWQA provide two case studies for examining the use of negotiation in resolving coastal zone management conflicts. In each case, two comparable decision-making bodies were examined: the FREMP Management Committee Executive (MCE) and the Standing Committee on the Water Quality Plan (WQSC) and the PSWQA Authority Board (AB) and Point Source Committee (PSC). Data on the use of negotiation were collected by telephone interviews with people involved in each of the four decision-making processes. The management areas of the Fraser River Estuary and the Puget Sound are comparable in that both are located in the Pacific Northwest of North America with similar climates and natural resources, and are experiencing growing population and development pressures. The management processes differ in the scale of areas covered (estuary versus basin), the size of the populations (the Fraser Estuary is half the population of Puget Sound) and the approach to coastal zone management (coordinator versus player; smaller versus larger budgets; lesser versus greater public involvement). There is no use of "explicit" negotiation in the four decision-making processes examined in the case studies. “Explicit" negotiation use is identified when there is explicit expression of the use of negotiation in the decision-making. "Implicit" negotiation is identified when people make trade-offs to adopt an agreement without explicitly expressing they are doing so (Dorcey and Riek, 1987), and is routinely used in all four decision-making situations. There is no use of any outside third party assistance such as mediators or facilitators in the negotiations; however, the FREMP Programs Coordinator facilitates the MCE negotiations and the PSWQA AB chair mediates the Board meetings. The implicit negotiations of the FREMP and the PSWQA exhibited a high degree of "structure" with the greatest extent in the PSWQA. "Structured" negotiations are identified as negotiations that actively seek to reach agreement by incorporating structure into the decision-making process through: the utilization of preparatory techniques, opportunity for the representation of affected interests, the utilization of explicit agreement criteria, some means to commit to the agreed-upon actions. Future coastal zone management should recognize the “implicit" use of negotiation since it is used so extensively within coastal zone management and evaluate the contribution of "implicit" negotiation in coastal zone management. Finally, consideration must be given to making the use of negotiation in coastal zone management "explicit" so that means are actively sought to resolve coastal resource use conflicts. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

The study draws on experience in coastal management globally, and in particular in Europe where the recent demonstration programme in integrated coastal zone management has promoted coastal management initiatives at the local scale, to examine the applicability of different coastal management evaluation techniques for assessing the role of coastal management as a tool for achieving sustainable development; and for determining the success of European pilot projects in coastal management; identify and assess factors which influence “successful” ICM in the European context; and determine whether international guidance relating to good practice in coastal management is relevant in the European context. An analysis of different approaches to evaluation showed that these are based on largely untested assumptions of validity - in particular of internal validity (causality) in the case of outcome based evaluation and of external validity (generalisability) in the case of process evaluations. In view of their early stage of development and differing goals but common institutional challenges, a process based evaluation is most appropriate for the demonstration project. In this study, a triangulation approach is used to test the assumption of external validity which underlies process based evaluations in ICM. Using independently derived results from the European demonstration projects, the study examines the applicability in the European context of international experience relating to good practice in co-ordination and in ensuring viability of ICM projects. The results are particularly relevant in the light of new European legislation which is designed to move coastal management in Europe from the current project-by-project approach to a more strategic approach by the promotion of a better enabling environment at national level.

This study aims to understand the influence of external forcing (i.e. climate, human influences) changes on the inputs of terrigenous materials from the Kaoping River as well as the biogeochemical responses of carbon and nutrients to riverine fluxes in the Kaoping coastal zone. The Kaoping River exhibits contrasting patterns in water discharge and material fluxes between wet and dry seasons. In general, river discharge is about 12 times higher in the wet season than in the dry season. Riverine fluxes of terrigenous materials (DOC¡BPOC¡BDSi¡BDIN¡BDIP¡BTDN and TDP) are about 3 to 10 times higher in the wet season than in the dry season. Consequently, distribution patterns of carbon, nutrients and hydrochemical parameters are significant difference among four seasons in the Kaoping coastal zone. Distributions of DOM (dissolved organic matter), POM (particulate organic matter) and nutrients in the Kaoping coastal zone show that the highest concentration is generally found in the area close to the Kaoping estuary, and the concentration decreases with the distance away from the land. The riverine fluxes also affect the ratios of DOC/TOC and £GPOC/£GPN in the coastal zone. The characteristics of DIN and DIP distributions and their ratios imply that the primary productivity may be largely limited by nitrogen (DIN < 1£gM¡AN/P < 10) rather than phosphorus (DIP < 0.2£gM¡AN/P < 30) in the Kaoping coastal zone. The occurring probability of nitrogen limitation varies from season to season during the study period, roughly ranging from 4% to 42% (winter, summer > spring, autumn). The GP (gross production) ranges from 708-19819 mg C m-2 d-1 in spring, from 2451-16230 mg C m-2 d-1 in summer, and from 844-5549 mg C m-2 d-1 in winter. The DCR (dark community respiration) ranges from 970-6284 mg C m-2 d-1 in spring, from 861-12418 mg C m-2 d-1 in summer, and from 997-5781 mg C m-2 d-1 in winter. Both GP and DCR display the highest value in summer, indicating the significant influence of terrigenous fluxes on biological production and respiration during summer. Meanwhile, correlations are significantly positive between GP (DCR) and temperature and nutrients, but significantly negative between GP (DCR) and salinity, also indicating the impacts of terrigenous inputs on GP and DCR. In the Kaoping coastal zone, the BCD (bacterial carbon demand) is about 15% GP and 64% GP, respectively, in winter and summer, inplying that the contribution of GP to BCD is more important in winter than in summer. Judging from the ratio of GP/DCR in different seasons and sampling stations, we conclude that the study area near the Kaoping estuary is likely to be autotrophic throughout the study period, the other stations are also likely to be autotrophic during summer. Nevertheless, the offshore stations appear to be heterotrophic during the winter season.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.