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This chapter reviews the efforts of several community groups, non-profit conservation organizations and government bodies that have been working to conserve town character within coastal areas in the United Kingdom, North America, Mexico and New Zealand. The places they are concerned with protecting range from small seaside towns to larger coastal regions. This has typically involved efforts to protect landscape features thought to be integral to expressions of local place character and include ‘character legislations’ designed to protect key features and manage environmental changes with the aim conserving place character in various coastal settings.
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Southend-on-Sea Borough Council website: http://www.southend.gov.uk/content.asp? section=204&0026;content=5507
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United Kingdom Government Planning Policy Guidance 15, Planning and the Historic Environment (PPG 15), Paragraph 4.2.
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Cornwall Council Planning website: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=2439
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Southend-on-Sea Borough Council website: http://www.southend.gov.uk/content.asp?section=204&content=1570
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Fareham Borough Council's Conservation Area Character Assessment webpage at: https://www.fareham.gov.uk/council/departments/planning/characterassessments.asp
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The Council's Conservation Area Character Assessment webpage at: https://www.fareham.gov.uk/pdf/planning/portchestrcaca.pdf (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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Definition of Integrated Characterisation Method (1.7) within the Jersey Countryside character appraisal report at: http://www.gov.je/PlanningEnvironment/IslandPlan2002/Background+Papers/Countryside+Character+Appraisal/Method/Integrated+Characterisation.htm
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Landscape Character Network website: http://www.landscapecharacter.org.uk/
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http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/landscape/tranquillity/tranquillity-what-is-the-problem
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MCHT website: http://www.mcht.org/index.shtml (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire: http://www.csrwire.com/News/6091.html
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Scarborough Crossroads, a local volunteer organization: http://www.scarboroughcross-roads.org/slct/referen/a02/rp040004.html
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Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition website: http://oregonshores.org/ (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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Philip Johnson cited in an article by Niki Price in Oregon Coast Today available on the CoastWatch website: http://oregonshores.org/narrative.php5?nid=175
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Land Trust Alliance website: (http://www.lta.org/yourregion/s_se_archives.htm#071006)
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Maui Coastal Land Trust website: http://www.mauicoastallandtrust.org/waihee.php
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Hawaii Island Land Trust website: http://www.hawaiilandtrust.org/ (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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Land Trust Alliance West Region: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/community/Regions/west/success-stories/coastline-jewel (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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Hawaii Land Trust: http://www.hawaiilandtrust.org/hawaii-land-trust-projects.html (Accessed April 20, 2009)
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Atlantic Coastal Action Program website: http://atlantic-web1.ns.ec.gc.ca/community/ acap/default.asp?lang=En&n=085FF7FC-1
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Environment Waikato Regional Council: http://www.ew.govt.nz/Policy-and-plans/Regional-Coastal-Plan/Regional-Coastal-Plan/APPENDIX-VI-Glossary/
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(2010). Conserving Town Character. In: Green, R.J. (eds) Coastal Towns in Transition: Local Perceptions of Landscape Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6887-4_5
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