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Key Lessons from New Perspectives on Australian Coastal Management
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Key Lessons from New Perspectives on Australian Coastal Management

Nicholas Harvey, Professor Timothy F. Smith and Tim Smith
SSRN Electronic Journal
Elsevier
23/12/2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4311046
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coastal management coastal governance coastal adaptation coastal processes socio-ecological resistance
Approaches to Australian coastal management are constantly changing yet continue to fall short of in terms of social-ecological resilience. We explore contemporary coastal management through three themes that emerged in the Special Issue on Australian Coastal Management published in 2022-23. These themes included: 1) coastal governance; 2) coastal threats and adaptation; and 3) coastal processes. We analyse these themes in the context of both the unique Australian federated approach to coastal management and the international literature on coastal management. The paper confirms previous findings on a lack of federal leadership in Australian coastal management and lack of action on recommendations from numerous national coastal inquiries. The paper concludes that: there has been a significant reduction of coastal expertise in the federal public service; there is a lack of a well-defined broad-based federal funding mechanism for coastal management; there is a need to incorporate a sediment compartment approach in both Australian coastal planning and climate adaptation strategies; a number of coastal management instruments at the State level appear not fit for purpose; and coastal adaptation faces conflicts in balancing property rights with public coastal amenity.

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