Integrating human security concerns in ICZM: an emerging challenge
In Integrated Costal Zone Management (ICZM): The Global Challenge, edited by R Krishnamurthy et. al.
Sonak S and Shaw R. 2007

Abstract

ICZM is an accepted management framework to address coastal and marine environmental problems and conflicts and to achieve sustainable use of coastal resources, particularly in developing countries. ICZM encompasses multiple ecological, institutional and socio-economical dimensions. Human security is concerned with safeguarding and expanding people’s vital freedoms. It requires both shielding people from acute threats and empowering people to take charge of their own lives. The relationship between human security and the environment is most pronounced in areas of human dependence on access to natural resources. Environmental resources are a critical part of the livelihoods of many people. When these resources are threatened because of environmental changes, people’s security is also threatened. Human security is a people centered concept that focuses on enabling individuals and communities to respond to change, whether by reducing vulnerability or by challenging the drivers of environmental change. Though much attention is paid to ICZM, human security concerns in relation to global environmental change have not been adequately addressed in its agenda. Therefore an attempt is made in this chapter to throw a light on the need for integration of human security concerns in ICZM.