INTEGRATED THEORY OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT REGARDING PROTECTION OF BEACHES AND DUNES

State adoption and implementation of coastal management program compon ents regarding the protection of beaches and dunes vary among the coas tal states with federally-approved coastal zone management programs, T he level of development of state coastal management programs is influe nced by a variety of political, economic, social, and environmental fa ctors, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression analyses were employed t o determine which of these state factors influence the level of develo pment of coastal management programs, The state factors associated wit h highly developed coastal management programs were identified as pro- environmental, activist citizenry and history of adopting environmenta l policies, (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd, All rights reserved.