MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management

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MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management
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The Coastal Zone

• The worlds 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)

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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 TC Planning system
• The Marine Coastal Access Bill also places
  coastal planning and management at the forefront
  of future coastal environmental management policy

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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

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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

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The Competition!

• Few courses compete directly with our MSc
• None exist regionally
• Each offers its own specialism

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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

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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

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Potential Postgraduate Awards

• 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

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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/bu
  rsariesandscholarships/postgraduate/faqs/

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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

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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

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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

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Flood Management and Water Resources Issues

• The module aims
• To develop a critical understanding of
  hydrologys 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Any questions?

• Dr Simon Jones FRGS FHEA CGeog
• sdjones2_at_glam.ac.uk
• 01443 654 490

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MSc Integrated Coastal Zone Management