Ready for some really interesting opinions? Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine, Jamaica, Phillipines, Oman...and Switzerland! are a few of the 18 nations around the world from which coastal professionals have responded to our opinion survey. We asked them about how the people of their country perceive climate change will affect them and if the media is playing an important role. Read on…

Professor Emeritus for Coastal Management at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK,Peter has shared with us his ideas and insight gained through more than 35 years of experience teaching and working in the field of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Peter explains to Manuela de los Rios why global change rather than climate change, the difficulties of ICZM in developing nations, future challenges for Coastal Managers...Read on...

CoastNet attended last month to a seminar in Westminster about the Marine Bill. Dr Rhoda Ballanger of Cardiff University, a panel member for the debate and a CoastNet Trustee, expressed her fears regarding the difficulty of ‘zipping up’ the marine and terrestrial management systems. Read more…

This month CoastNet will be telling you about ENCORA, a challenging and innovative project in Coastal Research. It is a European Network on Coastal Research, an EU Framework Programme about “Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area�?.