Making mainstreaming work: an analytical framework, guidelines and checklist for the mainstreaming of Marine and Coastal issues into National Planning and Budgetary Processes

Abstract

People care about coasts. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live their lives on and derive their livelihoods from coasts and coastal resources. Hundreds of millions more people who don't live on the coast use them for recreation or depend on the resources and environmental services they produce. The damage caused by human activities, whether it is from habitat loss, pollution damage or increased exposure to natural disasters caused by things such as mangrove destruction, attract great political and public concern.