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2011
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| Article Number | 04006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Session 4 – Adaptation of Coastal and Marine Policy and Planning: analysing leadership / Session 4B – Coastal and Marine Policy and Planning: reflections and experiences from the UK | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/litt/201104006 | |
| Published online | 09 May 2011 | |
A Decade of Delivering Sustainable Coastal Zone Management: The Tay Estuary Forum
1
Tay Estuary Forum, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1
4HN, Scotland, UK
TayEstuaryForum@dundee.ac.uk
2
School of Social and Environmental Sciences, University
of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland,
UK
r.w.duck@dundee.ac.uk
The Tay Estuary Forum (TEF) was established in 1997 with the aim of promoting the wise and sustainable use of the Tay Estuary and adjacent coastline of east-central Scotland. A decade ago, at the Littoral 2000 conference, the newly-formed TEF was described as being in a “formative” stage and evidently “aiming to promote a sustainable environment within an unsustainable system” (Burningham et al. 2000). This paper reflects on the achievements, developments and changes to the Partnership over the past decade and outlines the ongoing challenges it still faces. Scotland’s network of Local Coastal Partnerships (LCPs) have seen changes in national policy over the past decade but local delivery issues are still very much the same as they were ten years ago with community engagement and voluntary participation vital to the success of the Partnerships. With the emergence of Scotland’s Marine Act, the future of the LCPs in their current form may be uncertain, but their role in distilling national policy to the local level (and vice versa) is more essential now than ever before. As a well-established, integrated network, the Partnerships are well-placed to deliver this balance, given appropriate resources and funding. Despite a lack of long-term financial security, the TEF has persevered in gathering momentum since 1997; true partnership working has been cited previously as its greatest achievement (Finan and Duck, 2004). In April 2009 the TEF published a five-year Management Plan directing the work of the Forum over the years 2009-2014. The Plan evolved during a wide-ranging consultation with local stakeholders and will draw on the TEF’s extensive, dedicated membership in delivering key social, environmental and economic objectives to this diverse and valuable coastal region in the future.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2011