The climate crisis is one of the world’s most significant challenges, and in coastal landscapes, it will exacerbate the pressures on an already undermined socio-ecological system. Recognizing that environmental challenges do not comply with territorial boundaries has never been so critical. Today's coastal governance debates stress the need to overcome territorial boundaries and increase policy and stakeholder integration.
In landscape research, recent trends discuss the benefits of landscape governance by integrating the politics of scale with the natural conditions of places. Nevertheless, theoretical and empirical discussions on landscape governance have not yet expanded to the coastal governance debate. So, what is the value of coastal landscape governance when our future is at risk?
This lecture builds on literature on coastal landscape governance, discussing its added value for reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance. It will be presented and discussed as a manifesto for coastal landscape governance.
