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Participative governance and integrated coastal management. An experiment of dialogue in an insular community at isle-aux-coudres (Quebec, Canada)

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This paper is about an Integrated Coastal Management Project on an island, Isle-aux-Coudres, located in the St-Lawrence Estuary (Québec, Canada). It is based on data collected from 2003 to 2007 on the participatory aspects of the project such as: types of stakeholders, relationships between stakeholders, time dedicated to dialogue, consensus versus negotiation, and outcomes. We analyze the way concerns evolved into actions and the relationship between dialogue and actions during the project. We conclude that the difficulty is to join together the differences around various stakes, without forcing the consensus, or negating problems and conflicts.

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  1. This research was made possible through to a financing of the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC).

  2. This project has been made possible through the collaboration between the actors of the insular development, an OSBL coordinator (Comité ZIP du Sud de l’estuaire), researchers of the Centre de recherche en développement territorial –Université du Québec à Rimouski (phases 1 and 2) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (phase 1).

  3. Since 1979, the MRC (regional municipality of county) includes the cities and villages of the same territory and their first mandate is to prepare and make accept by the elected officials and the population the diagram of regional development. Since its creation, the MRCs acquired other powers, such as assuming several services (i.e.: land evaluation role), and to manage between-localities infrastructures.

  4. SADC: Société d’aide au développement communautaire (Community Future Group). CLD: Centre local de développement (Local development center); CLSC: Centre local de services communautaires (Local Center for community health and social services).

  5. On the island the drinking water resources are limited; the supply drinking water constitutes a recurring subject of polemic. For some, the exploitation of peat moss could have an impact on the fresh water reserves of the island.

  6. The municipality is mentioned 37 times as a partner in the action plan, whereas the Coastal Committee is named 23 times as partner in an action.

  7. The Committee is not legally incorporated, but is recognized and sponsored by the Town Council. According to the minutes of the Town Council of March 12, 2007, the Coastal Committee is mandated to study some questions and to make recommendations to the Town Council. The respondents selected for the interviews carried out in 2006, also recognize this role of recommendation to the Committee.

  8. In May 2007, the Coastal Committee has selected seven actions for which it was to play a leadership role.

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  1. Territories and Development Department, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada

    Steve Plante & Johanne Boisjoly

  2. Program in Regional Development, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada

    Julie Guillemot

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Plante, S., Boisjoly, J. & Guillemot, J. Participative governance and integrated coastal management. An experiment of dialogue in an insular community at isle-aux-coudres (Quebec, Canada). J Coast Conserv 13, 175–183 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-009-0058-7

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