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Coastal Challenges: A Guide to Coastal and Marine Issues is the 1998 update and revision of EHC's earlier guide, Covering the Coasts: A Reporter’s Guide to Coastal and Marine Resources. Coastal Challenges is designed to help readers steer through the broad spectrum of coastal and marine issues. It provides an overview of the current scientific, policy, and regulatory issues and describes the regulatory framework—the numerous agencies responsible for various coastal and marine resource management programs. The guide also provides a wealth of sources for more detailed information.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
  This section includes the cover, publication information, table of contents, and preface.
  
• Guide
  This section includes five chapters, five appendices, and a dynamic index.
  
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  
• Chapter 2: Defining Coastal and Marine Waters
  
• Chapter 3: Importance of the Resource: Facts at Your Fingertips
  
• Chapter 4: Major Coastal and Marine Resource Issues
  
• Chapter 5: Key Laws and Associated Programs
  
• Appendicies and Index
  

  Reprinted with permission. Published by the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center, June 2000, ISBN 0-87912-177-7.

  This guidebook is available below in a portable document file (pdf) format. You can view the document with Adobe Acrobat Reader (available as free software).

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