Regulating Coastal Zones International Perspectives on Land Management Instruments

1. Introduction: Rationale, objectives, and method of comparative analysis

Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Part I: Framing

2. Global challenges to coastal land management
3. International Dimension of Coastal Laws and Policy

Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Part II: Country Reports

　

Group 1: Mediterranean Countries (signatories to the Barcelona ICZM Protocol)

4. Spain

Marta Lora-Tamayo, National University of Distance Education, Spain

Pablo Molina, Garrigues law firm, Catalonia, Spain

5. France

Loic Prieur, Paris-Sorbonne University, France

6. Italy

Enzo Falco, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

Angela Barbanente, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

7. Malta

Kurt Xerri, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Public University of Tarragona), Catalonia, Spain

8. Slovenia

Naja Marot, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

9. Greece

Evangelia Balla, Scientific Council of the Hellenic Cadastre S.A., Greece

Georgia Giannakourou, University of Athens, Greece

10. Turkey

Fatma Unsal, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey

11. Israel

Dafna Carmon, Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel

Group 2: Non-Mediterranean European Countries

12. Portugal

Paulo Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Ines Calor, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

13. UK/Ireland

Linda McElduff, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

14. Netherlands

Pieter Jong, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Hendrik van Sandick, Practicing Lawyer, CITY, Netherlands (Formerly with the Dutch Planning Ministry)

15. Denmark

Helle Teger Anker, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

16. Germany

Eva Schachter, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany

Group 3: Other major OECD Countries

17. USA

Dan Tarlock, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA

18. Australia

Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney, Australia

　

Part III: Comparative Analysis and cross-learning

19. Similarities and differences in the laws, plans and implementation across countries
20. Evaluation and transferability: What can countries learn from each other?

Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

21. Conclusions: Global challenges for coordinated coastal policies and regulations

Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 

Biography

Rachelle Alterman is Professor (emerita) of urban planning and law at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and Senior Researcher at the Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. She heads the Laboratory on Comparative Planning Law and Property Rights (PLPR). Alterman is the founding president of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights. Her research interests include comparative planning law and land use regulation, comparative land policy and property rights, housing policy, and implementation of public policy. She is highly published and cited. For her pioneering contribution to the field, she was awarded Honorary Member status by the Association of European Schools of Planning (among only six awarded this distinction, and the only non-European), and has been selected as one of 16 global "leaders in planning thought" whose academic autobiographies have recently been published in the book Encounters in Planning Thought (Routledge, 2017).

Cygal Pellach holds a Bachelor of Planning from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently completing a doctoral degree, also at the Technion, under Rachelle Alterman’s supervision. Between her MSc and her PhD studies, Cygal served as the team leader in the EU-funded research project, Mare Nostrum, headed by Alterman. Prior to embarking on an academic path, Cygal garnered five years’ experience in urban planning practice, working in private consultancy in Melbourne (VIC), Australia.

"Alterman and Pellach have created an important book that provides up-to-date knowledge of current practices infused with a comparative analysis of coastal regulation across the globe. 
Considering the shortcomings related to implementation of the normative aspects of the well-known ICZM, this edited book fills a significant gap and makes an essential investigative contribution.
The editors provide much needed information about regulatory practices, complementing research on the normative aspects of ICZM.  This updates earlier seminal works, provides a fresh (and somewhat unconventional) look and thus adds significantly to current scholarship in the field. I fully endorse this book as indispensable for myriad scholars and practitioners."
-- Michelle Portman PhD, Author of Environmental Planning for Oceans and Coasts:  Methods, Tools, Technologies. Associate Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Vice Dean for Students Affairs, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

 

"Coastal systems and cultures are necessarily unique, but many of the conflicts over how to live within and use them are universal, and the need for effective ways to reconcile those conflicts is increasingly pressing. This collection and synthesis of cross-national scholarly reflections contributes greatly to our understanding of what is unique and what is universal across both settings and cultures. It provides insights that are grounded in the real-world challenges of both crafting and implementing effective solutions, and that are uniquely valuable in their comparative perspective."
-- Richard K. Norton, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan