Abstract

GARCIA DUENAS, Roberto Yasiel; MIRANDA VERA, Clara Elisa  and  CASTELLANOS GONZALEZ, María Elena. Master's Program in integrated coastal zone management at the University of Cienfuegos: contributions to sustainable development. Conrado [online]. 2024, vol.20, n.96, pp. 92-108.  Epub Feb 28, 2024. ISSN 1990-8644.

The socio-environmental problems experienced by coastal zones have conditioned the emergence of some environmental management tools and approaches to try to provide interdisciplinary answers and solutions to them. The emergence of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management approach in the 1970s and its subsequent implementation throughout the world in the face of the challenges of sustainable development led the Cuban government to adopt it in the 1990s. One of the many ways used was the approval of a master's degree program for capacity building in this area of knowledge. This work is based on the importance of the Master's Program in Integrated Coastal Zone Management at the University of Cienfuegos "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez". This master's program seeks to train professionals whose research contributes to the understanding of the phenomena that occur in the coastal zone and its tributary basins; to identify problems related to the integrated management of coastal zones; and to recommend solutions, among other aspects. From the methodological point of view, an analysis was made of the progress of the academic program based on its theoretical, methodological and research foundations. It is concluded that coastal zones constitute a new field of research which requires the formation of interdisciplinary capacities to address the problems presented by these important complex and fragile spaces.

Keywords : ICZM; emerging approach; Capacity building; Socio-environmental studies; Cuba.

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