TY - JOUR
T1 - An Integrated Approach to Coastal Zone Management to Control Development and Ensure Sustainability in a Rapidly Increasing Coastal Urban Environment
T2 - The Sultanate of Oman
AU - Al-Awadhi, Talal
AU - Al Nasiri, Noura A.
AU - Ahsan, Reazul
AU - Hereher, Mohamed
AU - Charabi, Yassine
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is an outcome of the project "Quantifying and Mitigating Potential Environmental Impacts Related to the Non-Eustatic Sea-Level Rise along Oman's Coastal Zone (SR/ART/GEOG/17/01)." The authors are grateful to the project team and the Department of Geography, Sultan Qaboos University, for supporting and encouragement.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Reckless construction and overextraction of resources have placed tremendous stress on the Sultanate of Oman's coastal ecosystems at Al-Batinah. The rate of sea level rise (SLR) intensifies under the multiple effects of environmental and social pressure. A projected 2 m SLR, for example, would inundate 200 km2 of land and impact the Sultanate's entire socioeconomic growth cycle and coastal ecology. The coastal land-use impacts, calculated through Landsat satellite images and census data, are used to explain the effect of SLR on coastal land uses and ecosystems. The Sultanate of Oman's comprehensive coastal zone management (CZM) planning and practices have limitations when seeking to reduce the burden on coastal system-linked socioeconomic growth and environmental issues. The study documented in this article addresses the challenges of the Sultanate's CZM practices and proposes an integrated coastal zone sustainability management framework.
AB - Reckless construction and overextraction of resources have placed tremendous stress on the Sultanate of Oman's coastal ecosystems at Al-Batinah. The rate of sea level rise (SLR) intensifies under the multiple effects of environmental and social pressure. A projected 2 m SLR, for example, would inundate 200 km2 of land and impact the Sultanate's entire socioeconomic growth cycle and coastal ecology. The coastal land-use impacts, calculated through Landsat satellite images and census data, are used to explain the effect of SLR on coastal land uses and ecosystems. The Sultanate of Oman's comprehensive coastal zone management (CZM) planning and practices have limitations when seeking to reduce the burden on coastal system-linked socioeconomic growth and environmental issues. The study documented in this article addresses the challenges of the Sultanate's CZM practices and proposes an integrated coastal zone sustainability management framework.
KW - coastal zone management
KW - environmental stress
KW - integrated framework
KW - land uses
KW - sea level rise
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U2 - 10.1089/env.2020.0075
DO - 10.1089/env.2020.0075
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85137303208
SN - 1939-4071
VL - 15
SP - 214
EP - 227
JO - Environmental Justice
JF - Environmental Justice
IS - 4
ER -