Integrated management of the Malagasy East Coast - Corus

Description

There has not been yet in Madagascar specific legal tool to ensure the establishment and maintenance of an integrated coastal management. The concept is indeed still recent. This absence does not mean the impossibility of any integrated management. Various instruments of already existing general scope might indeed be usefully employed to ensure the implementation of this management. One of these would be the secure local management of the of renewable natural resources known as Geloise law (Law No. 96-025 of 30th September 1996).In fact, it reinforces the role of local actors (basically the devolved administration, decentralized communities and the basic rural communities) and the exercise of their rights, for the protection and recovery of one or several natural resources of different types, terrestrial as well as marine (transversal property of Gelose law). The Gelose law is not a finished tool. It remains incomplete and imprecise. Its implementation in the specific context of coastal raises additional questions and increased complexity. They focus on the delimitation of space to integrate (legal definition of the coast) and on the modalities of management (governance of the coast). They are the result of the integrated coastal management who involves taking account of the interactions between a forest ecosystem located upstream, and coastal and marine ecosystems located downstream.

So, by providing answers to these questions, it is finally :

• to verify the relevance of the law Geloise to effective integrated management of coastal,
• to specify the possible, but necessary arrangements, of the law Geloise in the hypothesis where it is relevant to the effective coastal integrated management.