7th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning

Budapest, 30 June – 3 July 2022

In many coastal countries, there are unsustainable rates of coastal landscape change, which increases their vulnerability to climate change effects (Rangel-Buitrago et al., 2018). Additionally, coastal landscapes are often characterised by overlapping and competing land uses (Kristensen & Primdahl, 2020). However, the coastal governance debate has not paid sufficient attention to coastal landscapes. Coastal governance has penetrated research and policy agendas advocating the promise of integrated management, especially since Rio 92 (Pittman & Armitage, 2016). Nevertheless, today the discussion still identifies almost the same governance challenges. Coastal governance needs to address the interaction between land and sea interface, recognising the coastal zone as a socio-ecological system where policy integration must be achieved (Van-Assche et al., 2020). In landscape research, the landscape governance concept has gained a relevant position in the scientific debate (Görg, 2007; Kozar et al., 2014). However, empirically, the discussion has mainly focused on landscape restoration and has not addressed coastal landscape governance yet. The current literature on coastal landscape governance is almost non-existent. This article explores the concept of coastal landscape governance and offers a manifesto to incite a commitment to its research. The manifesto’s principles are built from coastal and landscape governance debates, discussing what coastal landscape governance is and why it matters, and how it differs from coastal governance. Conclusions will show that coastal landscape governance can be an added value for the governance of coastal landscapes compared with current practice.

Funding

Carla Gonçalves was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Doctoral Grant UI/BD/151233/2021.

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