Environment and Livelihoods in Tropical Coastal Zones

This book focuses on the challenges people face in managing agricultural crops, aquaculture, fisheries and related ecosystems in inland areas of coastal zones in the tropics of Asia, Africa, Australia and South America. These challenges can create conflicts in the use of natural resources between different stakeholders. Through many case studies, the book discusses the nature of the conflicts and identifies what is known and not known about how to manage them. For example, some case studies relate to the trade-offs between enhancing agricultural production by constructing embankments to keep out saline water and maintaining not only the variety of rural livelihoods but also brackish aquatic biodiversity. Other case studies provide the lessons learnt from the conversion of mangrove forests to shrimp farms.

Table of Content :

Contributors
vii
Series Foreword: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
Preface
ix
1 Land and Water Management in Coastal Zones: Dealing with Agriculture-Aquaculture-Fishery Conflicts
J.W. Gowing, T.P. Tuong and C.T. Hoanh
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2 Adapting to Aquaculture in Vietnam: Securing Livelihoods in a Context of Change in Two Coastal
Communities
C. Luttrell

3 Livelihood Systems and Dynamics of Poverty in a Coastal Province of
Vietnam
M. Hossain, T.T. Ut and M.L. Bose

4 Social and Environmental Impact of Rapid Change in the Coastal Zone of
Vietnam: an Assessment of Sustainability Issues
J.W. Gowing, T.P. Tuong, C.T. Hoanh and N.T. Khiem

5 Brackish-Water Shrimp Cultivation Threatens Permanent Damage to Coastal Agriculture in
Bangladesh
Md. Rezaul Karim

6 Coastal Water Resource Use for Higher Productivity: Participatory
Research for Increasing Cropping Intensity in Bangladesh
M.K. Mondal, T.P. Tuong, S.P. Ritu, M.H.K. Choudhury, A.M. Chasi, P.K.
Majumder, M.M. Islam and S.K. Adhikary

7 Coastal Shrimp Farming in Thailand: Searching for Sustainability
B. Szuster

8 Tracing the Outputs from Drained Acid Sulphate Floodplains to Minimize
Threats to Coastal Lakes
B.C.T. Macdonald, I. White, L. Heath, J. Smith, A.F. Keene, M. Tunks and A.
Kinsela

9 From Conflict to Industry-Regulated Best Practice Guidelines: a Case
Study of Estuarine Floodplain Management of the Tweed River of Eastern
Australia
I. White, M. Melville, B.C.T. Macdonald, R. Quirk, R. Hawken, M. Tunks, D.
Buckley, R. Beattie, L. Heath and J. Williams

10 Mangrove Dependency and the Livelihoods of Coastal Communities in Thailand
E.B. Barbier

11 Mangroves, People and Cockles: Impacts of the Shrimp-Farming
Industry on Mangrove Communities in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador
P. Ocampo-Thomason

12 Interrelations among Mangroves, the Local Economy and Social Sustainability: A Review from a Case
Study in North Brazil
U. Saint-Paul

13 Mangrove: Changes and Conflicts in Claimed Ownership, Uses and Purposes
M.-C. Cormier-Salem

14 Comparing Land-Use Planning Approaches in the Coastal Mekong Delta
of Vietnam
N.H. Trung, L.Q. Tri, M.E.F. van Mensvoort and A.K. Bregt

15 Applying the Resource Management Domain (RMD) Concept to Land and Water Use
and Management in the Coastal Zone: Case Study of Bac Lieu Province, Vietnam
S.P. Kam, N.V. Nhan, T.P.Tuong, C.T. Hoanh, V.T. Be Nam and A. Maunahan

16 Developing a Consultative Bayesian Model for Integrated Management of
Aquatic Resources: an Inland Coastal Zone Case Study
E. Baran, T. Jantunen and P. Chheng

17 Aquatic Food Production in the Coastal Zone: Data-Based Perceptions on the Trade-off between Mariculture and Fisheries Production of the Mahakam Delta and Estuary, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
P.A.M. van Zwieten, S.A. Sidik, Noryadi, I. Suyatna and Abdunnur

18 Managing Diverse Land Uses in Coastal Bangladesh: Institutional Approaches M. Rafiqul Islam

19 Widening Coastal Managers' Perceptions of Stakeholders through Capacity Building M. Le Tissier and J.M. Hills

20 Can Integrated Coastal Management Solve Agriculture-Fisheries-Aquaculture Conflicts
at the Land-Water Interface? A Perspective from New Institutional Economics C. Brugere

21 Responding to Coastal Poverty: Should We Be Doing Things Differently or Doing
Different Things?
J. Campbell, E. Whittingham and P. Townsley

22 Achieving Food and Environmental Security: Better River Basin Management for
Healthy Coastal Zones S. Atapattu and D. Molden