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A city's ban on short-term vacation rentals in the coastal zone constitutes 'development' under the California Coastal Act. Therefore, the Coastal Commission must first approve a coastal development permit, an [...]

I. Introduction Coastal state jurisdiction is the jurisdiction enjoyed by the coastal state in relation to breaches of regulations and laws by foreign flagged ships that take place within its [...]

In brief - NSW Court of Appeal dismisses a challenge brought by a landowner in Tweed Heads against the validity of coastal wetlands mapping in the State Environmental Planning Policy [...]

GAZA -- Israel on Sunday expanded the Palestinian fishing zone off the southern portion of Gaza's coast to nine nautical miles from six, allowing fishing in areas that had been [...]

From time to time a vessel will find itself in distress or in need of assistance. In these cases, it may be important for the vessel to move to a [...]

Regulation of short-term vacation rentals in the coastal zone requires Coastal Commission approval, an appellate court has ruled. The case emerged from the City of Santa Barbara, where a crackdown [...]

Bangladesh's recent decision to take to the U.N. long-time maritime boundary disputes with India, and to issue a compulsory arbitration notification under the United Nations Convention on the Law of [...]

In Florida, our beaches and coastal waters attract over 33 million tourists each year. Our marine fishing, boating, tourism, recreation and ocean transport industries bring over $400 billion every year [...]

As the state re-draws its maps of the Chesapeake Bay coasts to comply with a new environmental protection law, some of the changes could affect waterfront land-use restrictions in new [...]

On 20 August 2010, the NSW Department of Planning released the final NSW Coastal Planning Guideline: Adapting to Sea Level Rise to provide guidance on how sea level rise is [...]

Byline: Chad Hemenway OLDWICK, N.J., May 04, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- The coastlines of Mississippi and Alabama suffered billions of insured losses as a result of Hurricane [...]

Jan. 15--Nature doesn't adhere to political boundaries, so the politicians and legislators who seek to protect the environment need to step outside their traditional boundaries and re-examine the way laws [...]

The Coastal Commission met in Smith River this September, just three miles from the Oregon state line. The reduced two-day agenda and remote setting gave the meeting aspects of a [...]

Movies, music and television have created a global image of California as the land of sunshine and surf. Like many caricatures, the mystique has a nugget of truth at its [...]