Coastal and marine management is a knowledge-based profession. Yet the knowledge held by coastal and marine managers is not currently used efficiently or effectively. It is geographically dispersed, held in different systems, with different standards - or stored in the minds of experts around the world. OneCoast is a flexible, Type II World Summit on Sustainable Development, partnership enabling involvement from a diverse range of governments, businesses and non-governmental organizations worldwide.
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When the Fujimae Tidelands in Nagoya were registered as protected wetlands under the Ramsar convention, the decision was welcomed worldwide. Under threat from plans to dig a landfill for the city's trash, the tidelands were rescued by a concerted public-awareness campaign by the Society to Protect the Fujimae Tidelands. As the dialogue intensifies under growing interest in the site, the Society is seeking to deepen its role as an NPO.

At the Kotohikihama coast in Kyoto, smoking is prohibited at the coast for the conservation of Singing Sand. A circuit model can explain transformational changes in the coastal zone management system by focusing on knowledge creation. The model can provide a useful evolutionary design for the management of coastal zones by introducing, sharing and creating knowledge autonomously. The model is unique and can be a useful tool for designing a local coastal zone management system.