Community-Based Planning

Canada's Atlantic Coastal Action Program (Acap)

Bibliographic Data

ID4646538
AuthorsGuy M Robinson (0000-0003-1652-6456, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume163
Issue1
Pages25
Publication date1997-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3059683
OpenAlexW2084045138
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited4

The Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) was established in 1991 by Environment Canada in Canada's four Atlantic provinces. Focusing on 13 designated areas, ACAP depends largely upon strong participation of local residents to manage coastal resources, as it attempts to build 'bottom-up' initiatives through the formation of stakeholder committees comprising a cross-section of community residents, local government officials and representatives from local businesses and academia. This paper reports the preliminary findings of research on ACAP, examining the growth of community participation in the Program and analysing the general development of the scheme. It concentrates primarily on three rural localities designated under ACAP, reporting interviews with local residents and analysing impacts upon local communities. It is suggested that, although participation in and awareness of the scheme by local residents is relatively limited, the groundwork has been laid for both more extensive community involvement and for further development of significant practical attempts to improve the quality of the environment. Much will depend on availability of funds once the 13 ACAP groups have prepared environmental management plans during 1996

Action (physics · Geography · Coastal and Marine Management · Community and Sustainable Development · Geology · Oceanography

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