This volume is a guidebook for managers, policy makers, and activists who are seeking to build support for, develop, and implement Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programs, and for students who wish to understand the background and mechanics of such programs.

Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht are co-directors of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and co-authors of The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy. (Island Press, 1998).