Joanne Carrington

MSc Coastal Zone Management, Bournemouth University, 2001

An investigation into the Bourne Stream Partnership Initiative: can the Bourne Stream Partnership be described as a good working example of Integrated Coastal Zone Management?

In 2001 MSc student Jo Carrington joined the Partnership to undertake a 10-week research project; the report she subsequently delivered as her dissertation paper was an investigation into the Bourne Stream Partnership in its early days.  In this way she used the Partnership as a case study to analyse whether real benefits and progress might arise from such an initiative.

One of the key outputs of Jo's project was the production of a CD-Rom for partner organisations - a central database containing baseline information from within and outside the Partnership, including maps, historical data, lists of past, current and proposed reports and studies, and partner contact information.