Beach Tourism Essay

Introduction

Since last century, there has been a major change in the way that coastlines have been used. Beach tourism has become increasingly popular, fishing industry has expanded and residential and defensive construction sites has grown on the coastline. These developments due to the population rise, has generated major environmental changes, including t degradation of coastal resources (Agbayani, 1995) such as decrease in mangrove forests (White & Cruz-Trinidad, 1998), destruction of sea grass ecosystem (CRMP, 2004), damaged fish habitats (Aldona, Ferminb, & Agbayania, 2011) and coral reef devastation (Gomez, Aliño, Yap, & Licuanan, 1994).

In addition, climate change is putting pressure on coastal developments through impacts such as erosion,

Each ministry is controlling designated zone by passing laws such as the Harbor Act, Fishing Port Act, and the Public Waterfront Landfill Act. The goal is to cover the development and utilization of Japan's coastal zone. A total of 77 environmental classifications of coastal zone units have already been made (Wakita & Yagi, 2013).

Coastal Management Strategy in Australia

The Australian mainland coastline length is estimated to be about 35,877 km (see Table 2) with an additional 23,859 km of island coastlines (Australia, 2004). There are 758 estuaries around the country with most located in the tropical and sub-tropical zones (Dennison & Abal, 1999). Australia has the largest area of ocean jurisdiction comparing to any country on earth and claims an extensive

Exclusive Economic Zone of 8,148,250 square kilometers which shows the importance of coastal management in