β Scribed by L.P. Hildebrand
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
stakeholders in the coastal zone from around the world gathered in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) for the international conference Coastal Zone Canada '94 (CZC '94). Over 700 people from 52 countries, representing the full cross-section of coastal zone interests, were in attendance. These included officials of international agencies, federal/provincial-state/municipal government managers, scientists, politicians, academics, business interests, aboriginal peoples, community group leaders, members of non-government organizations, students, fishermen, artists, land owners, and interested citizens.
The inspiration for Coastal Zone Canada '94 came from two fronts. The first was the recognition of the need to maintain the substantial momentum that has been generated internationally for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). As Conference President Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Under-Secretary General for the United Nations Environment Programme and UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) put it, CZC '94 is the next stop on the continuum of significant international developments which are designed to discuss and debate the key issues and approaches in ICZM and advance the guidance and direction in the field. There was UNCED in Rio in 1992 that produced Agenda 21, the World Coast Conference and the Noordwijk Guidelines for ICZM in 1993, the Recommendations issued by the OECD Council and the IPCC Working Group for more integrated approaches to coastal planning and management, and now Coastal Zone Canada '94 in Halifax.
Secondly, one of the most important lessons that has been learned during the relatively short history of integrated coastal zone management around the world, is that it can only be effectively developed and implemented through a fully inclusive and cooperative approach. It
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