Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi

Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi: Restoring Estuaries and Bays provides an in-depth exploration of the integrated costal management (ICM) used in the Japanese Satoumi. The lessons of Satoumi―coastal areas where biological productivity and biodiversity have increased through human interaction―are important for the rest of the world, given the political consensus reached in Japan to truly restore estuaries and bays. The book will discuss and explain how this method could be modified to apply to other cultures in the world.

Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi: Restoring Estuaries and Bays presents chapters from experts in the relevant fields and includes chapters about each study field of the Satoumi, making it a valuable resource for researchers, field practitioners, and policymakers in coastal area management and development. This includes the Shizukawa Bay as an open coastal sea, the Seto Inland Sea as semi-enclosed coastal sea, and the Japan Sea. The book moves on to explore the economic evaluation of ecosystem services, a four-step management system, and the negotiation between marine protected areas and fisheries, and concludes with a full section covering a comparison of ICM with Europe and the United States, and how Japan’s policies could be integrated.

• Introduces a four-step system of local, regional, national and international management for successfully Integrated Coastal Management that can be deployed globally
• Presents a new concept for ICM which worked on the Satoumi
• Includes both Ecosystems Based Management (EBM) and Community Based Management (CBM)
• Proposes a common platform for ICM, clarifying the scientific topics involved and their significance regarding the environment

Researchers, field practitioners, and policy/decision makers in coastal area management and development; ecologists and general environmental policy professionals. Nonacademic practitioners, such as policy makers and nongovernmental organizations

1. Introduction
2. Sustainability of Aquaculture
2.1 Damage and Recovery of Seaweed/algae Beds in Shizukawa Bay by the Huge Tsunami
2.2 Nutrients Transport from Forest to Coastal Sea
2.3 Fe Transport from Forest to Coastal Sea
2.4 Organic Matter Transport from Forest to Coastal Sea
2.5 Carrying Capacity of Oyster and Kelp Culture in Shizukawa Bay
3. Management of Nutrient Concentration
3.1 Transparency and Primary Production
3.2 Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycling in Tidal Flat and Eel-grass Bed
3.3　Fish Production and Their Conservation in the Seto Inland Sea
3.4 Management of Nadas and Bays in the Seto Inland Sea
4. International Environmental Management of the Coastal Sea
4.1 Forecast of Water Temperature, Salinity and Currents in the Japan Sea
4.2 Forecast of Nutrient Concentration and Primary Production in the Japan Sea
4.3 Design of Marine Protected Areas in the Japan Sea
4.4 Environmental Management of Toyama Bay
4.5 Multi-phase Environmental Management of the Japan Sea
5. Environmental Economics, Culture and Negotiation in the Coastal Sea
5.1 Evaluation of Ecosystem Service of the Coastal Sea and ICM
5.2 Development of Fish Food Culture
5.3 Marine Protected Areas Designation and Consensus Building with Fishery Sectors
5.4 Multi-stage Management System of the Coastal Sea
6. Integrated Numerical Model of the Coastal Area
6.1 Development of Integrated Numerical Model of the Coastal Area
6.2 Integrated Numerical Model of Shizukawa Bay
6.3 Integrated Numerical Model of Toyama Bay
6.4 Integrated Numerical Model of the Seto Inland Sea
7. What can we learn from Satoumi to guide international ocean policies?
8. Conclusions