
Coastal areas are considered to be highly attractive zones, combining important activities on land and sea, while their uniqueness has been a distinctive motive for people and activities to develop. On the one hand, the sea offers a rich natural environment that involves important ecosystems and productive land, and attracts marine and commercial uses. On the other hand, land affects the sea by offering services of transporting people and goods. This relationship is stronger in the case of coastal cities. The accumulation of human activities and natural ecosystems in the coastal zone has created the need for a common approach and an identification of the appropriate actions and policies. The result of this need was the introduction of the concept of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the beginning of the 90s. The goal was to manage the economic and social processes and the conflicted interests and to coordinate the actions of different sectors and involved stakeholders. The coastal areas of the Mediterranean are of great interest especially in the context of the preparation and future implementation of the ICZM Protocol of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean.
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