Regulating Coastal Zones

Rachelle Alterman is Professor (emerita) of urban planning and law at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and Senior Researcher at the Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. She heads the Laboratory on Comparative Planning Law and Property Rights (PLPR). Alterman is the founding president of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights. Her research interests include comparative planning law and land use regulation, comparative land policy and property rights, housing policy, and implementation of public policy. She is highly published and cited. For her pioneering contribution to the field, she was awarded Honorary Member status by the Association of European Schools of Planning (among only six awarded this distinction, and the only non-European), and has been selected as one of 16 global "leaders in planning thought" whose academic autobiographies have recently been published in the book Encounters in Planning Thought (Routledge, 2017). Cygal Pellach holds a Bachelor of Planning from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently completing a doctoral degree, also at the Technion, under Rachelle Alterman’s supervision. Between her MSc and her PhD studies, Cygal served as the team leader in the EU-funded research project, Mare Nostrum, headed by Alterman. Prior to embarking on an academic path, Cygal garnered five years’ experience in urban planning practice, working in private consultancy in Melbourne (VIC), Australia.

Preface

Part I: Framing






Introduction: Objectives and method of comparative analysis
Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach




The parameters for comparative analysis and their expression in supra-national legislation
Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach



Part II: Country Reports

Group 1: European Countries – Non-Mediterranean




United Kingdom
Linda McElduff and Heather Ritchie




Netherlands
Pieter Jong and Hendrik van Sandick




Denmark
Helle Tegner Anker




Germany
Eva Schachtner




Portugal
Paulo Correia and Inês Calor



Group 2: Countries subject to the Mediterranean ICZM Protocol




Spain
Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé, Pablo Molina Alegre and Cygal Pellach




France
Loïc Prieur




Italy
Enzo Falco and Angela Barbanente






Slovenia
Naja Marot




Greece
Evangelia Balla and Georgia Giannakourou




Malta
Kurt Xerri




Turkey
Fatma Ünsal




Israel
Dafna Carmon and Rachelle Alterman



Group 3: Countries not subject to supranational legislation




United States of America

A. Dan Tarlock

17. Australia



Nicole Gurran



Part III: Comparative Analysis and Evaluation



18. Comparative Analysis I – Introduction and the concept of the coastal zone



Cygal Pellach and Rachelle Alterman



19. Comparative Analysis II – Land demarcation and property rights



Cygal Pellach and Rachelle Alterman



20. Comparative Analysis III – Governance, planning, and climate change awareness

Rachelle Alterman and Cygal Pellach