{"title":"The Coastal Zone Management Act in Its Sixth Decade: An Unsung Cornerstone in the Nation’s Response to Climate and Ocean Change","authors":"Eric S. Laschever","doi":"10.1080/08920753.2023.2235972","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 2022, the CZMA turned 50, joining other statutes from what has become known as the Environmental Decade in reaching this milestone. This essay, which the Journal presents in two issues, examines the Act’s role in addressing our coast’s most critical challenge—climate change. In the first issue and installment the essay briefly reviews the social and political context in which the Act emerged, lessons learned from other statutes’ 50th anniversary, and the CZMA’s 40th anniversary. The first installment then reviews the CZMA’s Section 309 program. This program encourages each participating state and territory to develop a 5-year strategy to enhance its Coastal Management Program (CMP) to address statutorily identified objectives, one of which most closely pertains to climate related impacts. The essay’s first installment concludes that the CZMA is singularly well positioned at a time when it is vitally needed, the prospect of new legislation is dim, and the current Supreme Court is methodically dismantling the environmental administrative state. The second installment reviews several individual 309 Strategies for 2021–2025 to illustrate how states and territories are using the CZMA to respond in the near term to climate change related impacts.","PeriodicalId":50995,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Management","volume":"51 1","pages":"231 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Coastal Management","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2023.2235972","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In 2022, the CZMA turned 50, joining other statutes from what has become known as the Environmental Decade in reaching this milestone. This essay, which the Journal presents in two issues, examines the Act’s role in addressing our coast’s most critical challenge—climate change. In the first issue and installment the essay briefly reviews the social and political context in which the Act emerged, lessons learned from other statutes’ 50th anniversary, and the CZMA’s 40th anniversary. The first installment then reviews the CZMA’s Section 309 program. This program encourages each participating state and territory to develop a 5-year strategy to enhance its Coastal Management Program (CMP) to address statutorily identified objectives, one of which most closely pertains to climate related impacts. The essay’s first installment concludes that the CZMA is singularly well positioned at a time when it is vitally needed, the prospect of new legislation is dim, and the current Supreme Court is methodically dismantling the environmental administrative state. The second installment reviews several individual 309 Strategies for 2021–2025 to illustrate how states and territories are using the CZMA to respond in the near term to climate change related impacts.
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Coastal Management is an international peer-reviewed, applied research journal dedicated to exploring the technical, applied ecological, legal, political, social, and policy issues relating to the use of coastal and ocean resources and environments on a global scale. The journal presents timely information on management tools and techniques as well as recent findings from research and analysis that bear directly on management and policy. Findings must be grounded in the current peer reviewed literature and relevant studies. Articles must contain a clear and relevant management component. Preference is given to studies of interest to an international readership, but case studies are accepted if conclusions are derived from acceptable evaluative methods, reference to comparable cases, and related to peer reviewed studies.