MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management

1. MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management

2. The Coastal Zone • The world’s diverse coastal environments are threatened by the extraordinary challenges of human resource exploitation, infrastructure development and climate change • Following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio, 1992) there has been increasing awareness that the coastal zone requires active planning and management to ensure the sustainable development of the environments, and the mitigation of past practices • In June 2007, the European Commission identified priority themes for the further promotion of ICZM, which included a coherent, cross-sectoral territorial approach and a comprehensive risk reduction and adaptation strategy (COM(2007) 308)

3. Why Undertake the MSc? • There is a growing realisation of the importance of the coastal zone and the potential for Integrated Coastal Zone Management • European and national governments, Local Authorities, NGOs, and industry perceive ICZM as a way of ensuring that the coast continues to be developed sustainably • In the UK, implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, and the Assessment and Management of Flood Risks Directive, will have significant coastal planning implications and change the T&C Planning system • The Marine & Coastal Access Bill also places coastal planning and management at the forefront of future coastal environmental management policy

4. Why Undertake the MSc? • Most planning practitioners are not coastal specialists, and so are unaware of major interactions between the human and the natural environments, or how to utilise ICZM to limit resource conflicts and achieve sustainable development • With a raft of forthcoming legislation, this MSc places you in the forefront of future employment opportunities

5. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Defra describe ICZM as: • an integrated approach towards the many different interests in both the land and marine components of the coast • the process of harmonising the different policies and decision making structures, to encourage concerted action towards achieving specific goals

6. The Competition! • Few courses compete directly with our MSc • None exist regionally • Each offers its own specialism

7. The Competition! Ours specialises in: • EU Coastal Zone Policy Framework • Forthcoming UK coastal legislation • Implementation of Planning Law • Energy Resource Exploitation • Tropical Ecology • GIS • WBL

8. How You Will Study • Full-time students complete the course in one year • Part-time students study over a maximum of three years • Taught modules are delivered over 26 weeks with the remaining 26 weeks being spent on thesis research • The student may be awarded: • a PG Certificate on completion of 3 prescribed modules • a PG Diploma on completion of 6 prescribed modules • an MSc awarded upon successful completion of the thesis

9. MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management Specified Modules: Integrated Coastal Zone Management Coastal Change and Planning Flood Management and Water Resource Issues Planning Control and Environmental Protection Masters Dissertation Optional Modules (2/4) Social Applications in GIS Physical Applications in GIS Renewable Energy - Hydro, Tidal, Wave & Wind Tropical Environmental Field Ecology Work Based Learning PG Certificate Structure Integrated Coastal Zone Management Coastal Change and Planning Flood Management and Water Resource Issues PG Diploma Structure Integrated Coastal Zone Management Coastal Change and Planning Flood Management and Water Resource Issues Masters Dissertation Potential Postgraduate Awards

10. Cost of Study Approved Fees 2009-2010 – UK and Full Time • MSc Degree Courses £3,390 • PG Diploma £2,262 • PG Cert £1,131 • 20 Credit Module £377 • PG Scholarship advice: http://money.glam.ac.uk/bursariesandscholarships/postgraduate/faqs/

11. Fieldwork and Student Experience • The provision of fieldwork forms an important aspect of the Student Experience • In the majority of modules there is the opportunity for field courses based on day-long visits to environmental sites and industrial locations • Day-long visits are an integral part of the courses, and incur no additional cost • In several modules, however, residential foreign field courses are part of the Student Experience • These do require an additional student contribution

12. Integrated Coastal Zone Management The module aims: • To develop a critical understanding of the contribution of economic, legal, socio-cultural, planning, management and environmental factors relevant to CZM • To examine current coastal zone management philosophies (in the UK, EU and world-wide) and their practical applications

13. Coastal Change and Planning The module aims: • To develop a critical understanding of coastal geomorphological processes and identify how past/present processes, human development and interference have produced the present coastline • To examine the ways in which the coast is managed within the land-use planning system • To critically assess the causes and consequences of future sea level changes with respect to geomorphological responses and ICZM • To identify potential impacts and threats from predicted coastal changes, and evaluate how the land-use planning system takes account of coastal change

14. Flood Management and Water Resources Issues The module aims: • To develop a critical understanding of hydrology’s influence within a catchment and the geomorphological responses resulting from the movement of water • To develop a critical understanding of the controls on water resources, their management difficulties, and evaluate management strategies adopted for catchment responses to hydrological events • To critically assess the importance of climate change and predicted impacts on hydrology, river processes and water resources, and relate current policies to risk assessment and land-use planning in order to manage future change

15. Planning Control and Environmental Protection The module aims: • To introduce the land-use planning systems of Wales with respect to environmental, resource and hazard management issues • To describe and critically evaluate the planning system as applied to the control of minerals working, considering strategic and environmental interests

16. Social Applications in GIS The module aims: • To provide the opportunity for students to review the use of GIS in a range of ‘social’ applications and acquire a theoretical or practical depth of understanding of a selected aspect of GIS through independent study

17. Physical Applications in GIS The module aims: • To provide the opportunity for students to review the use of GIS in a range of ‘physical’ and environmental applications and acquire a theoretical or practical depth of understanding of a selected aspect of GIS through independent study

18. Renewable Energy – Hydro, Tidal, Wave and Wind The module aims: • Critically review the facts affecting public perception and social impacts of renewable energy • Recognise the potential of hydro, tidal, wave and wind resources in the UK and internationally • Understand the fundamental principles related to the generation of these renewable energies • Appreciate the factors affecting the selection, design and operation of the related technology • Evaluate the potential impacts and benefits on the environmental and economy of these renewable energies

19. Tropical Environmental Field Ecology The module aims: • To provide an introduction to the study of a range of major tropical ecosystems, use various advanced field techniques and give experience in the identification of a range of tropical plant and animal taxa terrestrially and in the marine environment

20. Work Based Learning The module aims: • Undertake a period of 60 hours of work based learning under the direction of an employer and an academic supervisor enabling them to learn and develop in a working environment • Complete appropriate national occupational standards in the workplace

21. Dissertation The module aims: • To study in depth a relevant topic of choice • To assess and evaluate the value and relevance of primary and secondary data • To integrate knowledge and skills developed in previous modules and apply them to novel and complex situations • To present the project to an appropriate standard

22. Entry Qualification • Candidates must be able to satisfy the general administrative policy of the University of Glamorgan and the Department of Science and Sport, which will normally require a 2ii (Hons) degree qualification in a suitable related discipline • Those without such qualifications are considered on an individual basis and a wide range of prior/equivalent experience may be taken into account

23. Career Destinations Claire Espinasse • MSc in Coastal Conservation and Management in 2003 after completing my thesis in Indonesia. Now employed as a marine environmental consultant first in the UK and now in Australia for RPS Group. Vicky Swales • MSc in Coastal Conservation and Management in 2003, after completing a thesis in seagrasses. Now employed by the Welsh Assembly Government as a Fisheries Policy Officer Jonathan Austin • MSc Coastal Management and Conservation in 2004 and now works for the Environment Agency (Wales) as a Development Control Officer, ensuring that the Agency is consulted on planning proposals Stewart Newman • MSc Coastal Conservation 2005, and now works for K-Land Solutions (KDC Contractors) as a Remediation Project Manager dealing with contaminated land, as a specialist in demolition and nuclear/radiation waste management.

24. Dr Simon Jones FRGS FHEA CGeog sdjones2@glam.ac.uk 01443 654 490 Any questions?

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