The authors present essential information for those who would attempt to manage, or formulate and implement policies that acknowledge, the relationship between coastal and ocean use and the environments affected by that use.

Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht are co-directors of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and co-authors of The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy (Island Press, 1998).