Coastal

"Human impacts, coupled with global climate change are placing increased pressures on coastal environments. During the last three decades, in response to the growing problems of coastal zones, many countries have introduced Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a mechanism to effectively manage the coastal zone and the conflicts of interest arise from competition for coastal space and resources. However many ICZM schemes in the developing countries have failed at the implementation stage as a result of inadequate institutional and management capacity, as well as a lack of decentralization for the community in implementing local integrated coastal management. Hence, decentralization of ICZM is necessary to deal with the extensive geographical problems and the tremendous social and cultural diversity of communities… Hossam Samir Ibrahim, DECENTRALIZATION IN THE EGYPTIAN COASTAL MANAGEMENT The Coastal Development Journal is a peer reviewed journal published by OMICS Group, a big supporter of the Open Access publication model. OMICS Group has been expanding its publication services by acquiring reputed journals from many prestigious publishers all over the world. This has led to a large repertoire of 700+ peer-reviewed journals, of which, quality and originality are insured by 50,000+ editorial board members. With the newly launched OMICS Translation Services, authors from the field of coastal development, coastal management and coastal conservation are now offered a solution to overcome language barriers that used to limit the scope of research to a certain audience. We believe that translation of research experiments is a guarantee for quicker and larger dissemination of science worldwide."