India’s coastal zone management with an emphasis on rapidly developing Gujarat State

India’s Gujarat state has a long coastline with rich maritime history. The entrepreneurial nature of its citizens enabled Gujarat to emerge as the most aggressive industrial development state in the country. Due to the availability of vast land resource for industrial expansion along the coast, affo...

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Published in:Journal of coastal conservation 2014-12, Vol.18 (6), p.683-690
Main Authors: Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy, Patel, Pratiksha, Basu, Saikat Kumar, Chakraborty, Chiranjib, Hsu, Minna J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birds
Coastal ecology
Coastal environments
Coastal management
Coastal Sciences
Coastal zone
Coastal zone management
Coasts
Conservation
Coral reefs
Density
Development projects
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecological zones
Ecology
ecosystems
entrepreneurship
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Environmental regulation
Geography
Gulfs
humans
India
Industrial areas
Industrial development
industrialization
issues and policy
labor
Land resources
Laws
laws and regulations
Mangroves
Marine
Marine ecology
Marine ecosystems
Migratory birds
Mud flats
Nature Conservation
Nesting
nesting sites
Oceanography
Policies
Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
salt marshes
Sea grasses
seagrasses
state government
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Summary:India’s Gujarat state has a long coastline with rich maritime history. The entrepreneurial nature of its citizens enabled Gujarat to emerge as the most aggressive industrial development state in the country. Due to the availability of vast land resource for industrial expansion along the coast, affordable labor cost, sparse human density and liberal state government policies have significantly contributed towards the outburst of the industrial sector’s growth across Gujarat. Ecologically fragile ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, mudflats, salt marshes, sea grass beds and nesting sites of winter migratory birds are increasingly threatened due to direct and indirect pressure induced by the industrial and allied development projects. This article reviews the status of coastal environment in Gujarat state with an emphasis on integrated coastal management associated laws and regulations.
ISSN:1400-0350
1874-7841
DOI:10.1007/s11852-014-0344-x