Coastal Management Coastal management is a rapidly emerging discipline in the field of environmental sciences. The integrated management of the coastal zone is a concept that is currently receiving considerable attention worldwide. It concerns itself with the sustainable use of the world's coastal resources. The past century has seen enormous pressures on the coastlines. Coasts and estuaries are subjected to the impact of the expansion of urban areas, tourism and recreation, mineral extraction, coastal defence, and landscape, habitat and wildlife protection.
Coastal management adopts a multidisciplinary approach.
You receive an education that is broadly based in the environmental sciences, focusing on geography, biology, planning and management. In particular, you examine policies for successful management rooted in the analysis of problems that are considered within regional, national and global contexts. The programme provides the opportunity to get to grips with real issues facing coastal managers and is based on the investigative approach. You will be encouraged to acquire analytical skills and to develop and apply them in practice. Field work is an essential part of what we do, and we are superbly sited in one of the most outstanding coastal locations in Britain.