This publication synthesises a wide diversity of intofmration on economic pressures on the coastal sector, highlighting examples of impacts and providing a rationale for their responses, all from an economic perspective. It serves as an introduction to many aspects of coastal zone management as well as the various drivers and pressures to which coastal zones are exposed.
This document gathers the proceedings of the Biodiversity and European Development Cooperation (BEDC) Conference. The aim of the BEDC Conference was to contribute to transforming political commitments into concrete actions by developing recommendations for the European Commission (EC) and European Union (EU) Member States on how to pro-actively address the integration of biodiversity concerns into development cooperation programmes and policies.