A/RES/74/210
Strengthening cooperation for integrated coastal zone
management for achieving sustainable development
3.
Underlines that integrated coastal zone management is a dyna mic process
for the sustainable management and use of coastal zones, taking into account at the
same time the fragility of coastal ecosystems and landscapes, the diversity of
activities and uses, their interactions, the maritime orientation of certain acti vities and
uses and their impact on both the marine and land parts;
4.
Encourages Member States to consider the definition and implementation
of an integrated coastal zone management approach, including through appropriate
national planning tools and an ecosystem approach that integrates land, sea and
watershed areas;
5.
Also encourages Member States to consider strengthening, or where
applicable establishing, coordinating mechanisms for the integrated management and
sustainable development of coastal and marine areas and their resources, at the local,
national and regional levels;
6.
Further encourages Member States to take concrete measures to integrate
poverty eradication, quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure,
sustainable transport, science, technology and innovation into integrated coastal zone
management;
7.
Stresses the importance of policies and plans for disaster risk reduction to
build resilience and reduce the impacts and costs of natural disasters, also stresses the
importance of biodiversity preservation and nature-based solutions, and encourages
Member States to incorporate these elements as part of their approach to integrated
coastal zone management;
8.
Also stresses the importance of promoting coordination at the national and
local levels with regard to coastal areas, with the aim of ensuring policy coherence,
as well as the effectiveness of coastal management measures, while ensuring the
participation of all relevant stakeholders, including people in vulnerable situa tions;
9.
Emphasizes the importance of partnerships, of bringing together
multi-stakeholder actors to enable the integration of different interests and knowledge
into planning processes or strategies and of helping to ensure that area -based
management approach design is based on the best available science;
10. Also emphasizes that international and regional cooperation, including
North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation, and through capacity-building
and technical support for developing counties and public-private partnerships, are an
important factor in promoting the integrated coastal zone management approach by,
inter alia, promoting peer learning and cooperation, developing the necessary coastal
systematic observation, research and information management systems and
developing technologies, the science-policy interface and technological capacities, as
well as building effective linkages among global, regional, subregional and national
processes, as appropriate, to advance the achievement of t he Sustainable
Development Goals;
11. Calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme and other relevant
United Nations entities, within their mandates and existing resources, to support the
efforts of Member States in promoting and implementing the i ntegrated coastal zone
management approach, as well as in mobilizing partnerships and initiatives at the
local, national and regional levels;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-sixth session an action-oriented report on the implementation of the present
resolution, within existing resources, and decides to include in the provisional agenda
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