World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) - University of Port Harcourt
Abstract
The provision of environment management plan and formulating the
environmental strategies of coastal regions are the most essential
measures required for the integrated management of coastal regions. For
this purpose, this research has been conducted using two goal-oriented
and problem-oriented approaches in order to determine the planning
perspective and problems approach in order to determine bottlenecks
respectively. At first, the vision, mission, and objective of
developing the environmental management of the eastern coasts of
Mazandaran by SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) method
have been determined. Thereafter, with using of analytic hierarchical
process (AHP) method and EC (Expert chose) software have been applied
to prioritize the strategies. At last, the environmental plan and
projects of this region was provided based on the objectives. According
to this research, the macro-strategies of SO, WO, ST, and WT have been
identified in the said order as the priorities of the environmental
planning of the region. The SO strategies including the protection of
aquatics, integrated management of rivers and surface waters, and the
development of coastal tourism as well as the most prioritized one,
which is the optimal management of environment and sensitive ecosystems
of coastal regions have been studied. In general, in this research 18
environmental strategies classified into four strategic classes have
been defined. According to the six objectives, 10 plan, and 16 projects
have been defined for the environmental management plan of the eastern
coasts of Mazandaran Province