... and the need to work with, rather than against, natural processes, government wanted to encourage debate about widening the range of options to adapt to coastal change. Dorset County Council, on behalf of a range of partners on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset and East Devon, submitted a successful bid (Dorset...

.... For example, Wales is to establish its own procedures and mechanisms for marine management, and the Scottish government closed its consultation on a Scottish marine bill in October 2008. Creation of a new, independent, non-departmental public body, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), which...