Harbor Management Strategies for New England

摘要

This report emphasizes institutional solutions to New England's harbor management problems. Chapter 1 assesses potential pressures for development of New England's harbors, based on an overview of potential water-enhanced and water-dependent harbor uses, and of the existing physical and institutional characteristics of the region's harbors. Chapter 2 explains the harbor system; how harbor resources are currently allocated among competing uses in New England; and general principles for improving the existing harbor system. Chapter 3 describes five institutional approaches to improving harbor management, which are already established within the United States. Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on the methods by which five New England coastal communities, with funding from NERBC, have attempted to improve management of their harbors.