Coordination Centre for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Belgium (poster)

The need for coordination Coastal zones are complex areas with a highly specific natural character. As a contact zone between land and sea they possess an exceptional diversity of environments, biotic communities, and animal- and plant species. Coastal areas are, owing to their specific characteristics, also very attractive, commercially, for the development of coastal-related economic activities, e.g. port development, fishing, the abstraction of drinking water in the sand dunes, tourism and recreation. All of these activities lead to a highly dynamic coastal region. Examples of these regiona... Mehr ...