@article{Breen:148829,
      recid = {148829},
      author = {Breen, Benjamin and Hynes, Stephen},
      title = {A Biome Portfolio Analysis (BPA) of Integrated Coastal  Zone Management in the West of Ireland},
      address = {2012},
      number = {1155-2016-93001},
      series = {SEMRU Working Paper Series},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {EU policy geared towards the sustainable development of  European coastal areas has incorporated Integrated Coastal  Zone Management (ICZM) as one of its primary mechanisms to  achieve its goal. However, critical shortcomings in the  ICZM paradigm have emerged. In particular, incoherence in  the European Commission’s ICZM principles with respect to  local and strategic objectives remains an issue.  Additionally, a lack of scientific certainty about  environmental processes when determining the environmental  pros and cons of alternative coastal-management decisions  undermines environmentally protective decisions that may  otherwise hinder local regional development. With these  issues in mind, a Biodiversity Portfolio Analysis (BPA) is  applied to Iarras Aithneach, a peninsula on the west coast  of Ireland, to test its suitability as tool for ICZM. In  addition, the paper uses the BPA methodology to explore the  contrast between scientific/strategic and local attitudes  towards the management of a coastal area of environmental  importance. Pronounced differences between the two are  found and the implications for both BPA and ICZM are  discussed. The spatial and participatory nature of the BPA  process and the explicit treatment of risk the framework  exhibits suggest there is scope for it to become a useful  tool for ICZM. It also has the potential to act as a  routine way of quantifying the “attitude gap” between the  scientific community and the local community when managing  a unique coastal area.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/148829},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.148829},
}