Stakeholder approach to prevent Integrated Coastal Management failures

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Stakeholder approach to prevent Integrated
Coastal Management failures Swarna
Prasad Maritime Research Centre, Southampton
Institute, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14
0YN, UK

• Research Aims
• Assess the implications of stakeholder theory in
  ICM in India
• Evaluate the implications in the outcomes of
  Indian coastal projects
• Produce a theoretically robust means of
  identifying ICM projects likely to lead to
  environmental degradation

• Methodology Stakeholder Analysis
• Identify the main purpose of the analysis
• Develop an understanding of the system and
  decision-makers in the system
• Identify principle stakeholders
• Investigate stakeholder interests,
  characteristics and circumstances
• Identify patterns and contexts of interaction
  between stakeholders
• Define options for management
• Each step details the use of different methods
  like matrices, creation of typologies, interviews
  etc and also different attributes like power,
  influence and interests of the stakeholders are
  considered in the analysis (Grimble et al., 1995
  ODA, 1995 Chevalier, 2001).

• Non-naïve Approach
• Traditional stakeholder approach in management is
  criticised as naïve (Thomas, 1998 Thomas, 1996
  Watson, 1994)
• Taking a non-naïve approach to ICM, this project
  investigates the role, power and influence of
  stakeholders in coastal projects in Tamilnadu,
  India
• The derived implications will be used in
  evaluating the validity of the ICM framework with
  respect to stakeholders
• This evaluation will be used to determine ICM
  projects at risk of leading to environmental
  degradation, by applying the model to two current
  coastal projects in the same area

• Project Selection
• Four coastal projects were chosen in the Southern
  state of Tamilnadu, in order that they have
  geographical and cultural similarity
• Development projects to cover the four broad
  categories of industrial, fisheries, tourism and
  coastal communities
• Projects initiated prior to 1998 and led to
  various environmental problems were selected

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