This volume is a guidebook for managers, policy makers, and activists who are seeking to build support for, develop, and implement Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programs, and for students who wish to understand the background and mechanics of such programs.

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last...