Sustainable development of the coastal regions: problems, prerequisites, and limitations

Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

^* Corresponding author: baklanov@tigdvo.ru

Abstract

Sustainable development of a region is considered as stable development, balanced in the economic, social and environmental areas. To achieve sustainable development of a coastal region, it is necessary to cover the entire integral geosystem, including land territory of the region and the adjacent sea area. It is necessary to model dynamics of the geosystem using various information and geographic information systems. On this basis, strategic planning and monitoring of the sustainable development should be employed. Basic core principle for the sustainable development of coastal regions is a regional nature management, including usage of the natural resources of land, sea and ocean. At the same time, it is necessary to identify and evaluate aqua-territorial combinations of the natural resources and inter-resource ties. There are some problems and limitations of the sustainable development of coastal regions, which are highlighted, including dangerous processes and phenomena (wave, tsunami, typhoons, etc.), the need for coastal protection, etc., as well as favorable factors - availability of various marine natural resources, possibility of using sea transport and availability of sea markets, etc.