{"id":52790,"date":"2019-10-03T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52790"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:08:50","slug":"answered-examine-the-need-and-role-of-a-robust-coastal-ecosystem-in-indias-economic-growth-and-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-examine-the-need-and-role-of-a-robust-coastal-ecosystem-in-indias-economic-growth-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Examine the need and role of a robust coastal ecosystem in India\u2019s economic growth and security."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Significance of robust coastal ecosystem for India economy. Major constraints in developing coastal ecosystem in India.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Coastal ecosystem in India is important for managing the coasts, and all the other aspects including geographical and political boundaries, to achieve sustainability. India has an exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 2.02 million sq. km and a long coastline of 8,118 km with rich and diverse marine living resources. Robust coastal ecosystem is critical for utilising these resources efficiently leading to inclusive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significance of robust coastal ecosystem for\nIndia economy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Resources: <\/strong>It is important to enhance coastal\nresource efficiency and utilisation. Indian Ocean contain vast amount of\nminerals, including the cobalt, zinc, manganese and rare earth materials. These\nminerals are needed for electronic industry for manufacturing smart phones,\nlaptops and car components etc. Seawater also contain economically useful salts\nsuch as gypsum and common salt. Gypsum is useful in various industries. This\nwould help Make in India initiative.<\/li>
  2. Sustainable development: <\/strong>Marine resources from Indian Ocean\ncan serve as the backbone of India\u2019s economic growth and can help India to\nbecome a $5 trillion economy by 2022. Blue economy, through sustainable use of\noceans, has great potential for boosting the economic growth.<\/li>
  3. Good governance: <\/strong>Coastal ecosystem is important to\nbuild of collective capacity of communities and will enhance decentralised\ngovernance for adopting and implementing integrated coastal management\napproaches. This would help in participation of local people leading to good\ngovernance which is important for sustainable and inclusive growth.<\/li>
  4. Tourism:<\/strong> Coastal ecosystem include creation of\ninfrastructure for tourism, restoration and recharge of water bodies, beach\ncleaning and development, and other small infrastructure facilities. This is\nimportant to promote tourism in environment friendly way.<\/li>
  5. Employment generation:<\/strong> It will provide jobs, improved\nlivelihoods to many. This will help in inclusive growth. E.g improving fishery\nresources exploitation can provide livelihood to many. Livelihood improvement\ninitiatives like demonstration of climate resilient or salinity resistant\nagriculture, water harvesting and recharge\/storage, creation of infrastructure\nand facilities to support eco-tourism, community-based small-scale mariculture,\nseaweed cultivation, aquaponics etc. would do value addition to other\nlivelihood activities.<\/li>
  6. Pisciculture: <\/strong>Marine fisheries wealth around\nIndian coastline is estimated to have an annual harvestable potential of 4.4\nmillion metric tonnes. Thus coastal management would provide a boost to fishery\nsector through development of infrastructure.<\/li>
  7. Energy security: <\/strong>The main energy resources present in\nIndian Ocean are petroleum and gas hydrates. Petroleum products mainly includes\nthe oil produced from offshore regions. Gas hydrates  are unusually compact chemical structures\nmade of water and natural gas. Along with this tidal energy is also important\nthat would provide electricity to locals.<\/li>
  8. Food security:<\/strong> It will lead to food security\nthrough fishery sector and other sea food resources. It would also help in\nreducing malnutrition issue in India as fishes are good source of nutrition.<\/li>
  9. Efficient transportation and\nlogistics:<\/strong> Coastal ecosystem\nrequire development of infrastructure around the coasts. Coasts are major\ngateway of trade. Better connectivity in the region will significantly cut the\ntransport cost and will reduce logistics inefficiencies.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Major constraints in developing coastal ecosystem\nin India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. The \u2018top-down\u2019 approach of\nadministrative decision making in CZM is a major issue.<\/li>
    2. Coordination between centre and\nstates and various ministries and departments for efficient coastal development\nis lacking<\/li>
    3. Disasters like tsunami pose great\ndanger to coastal infrastructure and communities. It not only jeopardise\ncoastal management efforts but also destroy valuable national assets.<\/li>
    4. Lack of good weather forecasting\ntechnology also add to the loss caused by various disasters.<\/li>
    5. Increasing climate change lead to rise\nin sea level that is endangering coastal security and infrastructure.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Coastal Zone management is important to develop and sustainably utilise the coasts for sustainable development. What is required is use of technology, community participation and removal o& bottlenecks like lack of coordination at various levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Significance of robust coastal ecosystem for India economy. Major constraints in developing coastal ecosystem in India. Conclusion. Way forward. Coastal ecosystem in India is important for managing the coasts, and all the other aspects including geographical and political boundaries, to achieve sustainability. India has an exclusive Economic… Continue reading [Answered] Examine the need and role of a robust coastal ecosystem in India\u2019s economic growth and security.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52790","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}