Sustainable coastal management requires us to consciously integrate social, cultural, ecological and economically productive dimensions of the coast. This approach gives us the opportunity to develop ways of living on the coast that are synergistic and constructive, rather than destructive.
Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. The National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management ( NCSCM ), Chennai is a research institute under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India with a vision to manage the Indian coast in a sustainable manner.
Sustainable management is designed to cope with future threats (increased storm events, rising sea levels) but its implementation can lead to local conflicts in many countries. Coastal communities around the world face the dynamic nature of the coast's everyday environment.