{"id":13147,"date":"2026-05-15T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:48:13","slug":"maf-461-coastal-zone-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2026\/05\/15\/maf-461-coastal-zone-management\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF 461, Coastal Zone Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Required for :<\/strong> Elective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typical Semester :<\/strong> Spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typically Taught By :<\/strong> Tracey Dalton \/ Sarah Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Examination of activities and management efforts in the coastal zone of both developed and developing countries and their impacts on the environment.&nbsp; Resolution of use conflicts.&nbsp;&nbsp;Coastal regions in the US and around the world are experiencing growing pressures from increased coastal populations and higher resource demands. To ensure that coastal regions can meet the needs of this ever-growing population (i.e. food, transportation, recreation, etc.) while maintaining ecological structure and function, it is necessary to manage human activities at the land-sea interface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this course, we explore how policies to manage human activities at the coast are developed, carried out, and evaluated. Key concepts influencing the policy process, such as adaptive management, participatory process, local and traditional knowledge, environmental and social justice, program evaluation, and others, will be examined. Examples from the United States, the Caribbean, and other locations will illustrate these concepts. Considerable attention will be given to the US Coastal Zone Management Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required for : Elective Typical Semester : Spring Typically Taught By : Tracey Dalton \/ Sarah Smith &nbsp;Examination of activities and management efforts in the coastal zone of both developed and developing countries and their impacts on the environment.&nbsp; Resolution of use conflicts.&nbsp;&nbsp;Coastal regions in the US and around the world are experiencing growing pressures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13148,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions\/13148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}