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who have committed time and resources to the common cause of a healthy lagoon
and resulting SES. The plan and other products produced from this effort should have
a built-in progress and accountability monitoring system. They should have a sched-
uled reevaluation regimen as old goals are reached and new ones are set. The long-
term commitment to this effort should be emphasized at the onset, and measures to
ensure its sustained viability need to be clearly stated in any documents produced.
The planning process itself, in addition to the products it creates, plays a major
role in the integration of the information and philosophy of sustainable management
of the system. The act of engaging existing and new constituents as participants and
partners in the process raises the level of consciousness about the ecological and
socio-economic link throughout the community. As a result, additional resources of
expanded and nontraditional constituent groups promote new and creative
approaches and solutions to old and new problems. Integrated planning and decision
making are means to achieve sustainable management.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors wish to acknowledge the sage advice and involvement of the team
leader, Prof. I.E. Gönenç, and each of the other team members. Prof. Dr. A.
Vadinaneau (Romania) provided invaluable conceptual input. Dr. E. Andrulewicz
(Poland), Dr. Bade Cebeci (Turkey), Dr. A. Razinkovas (Lithuania), Dr. Chris Baker
(U.K.), Dr. E. Tuska (Romania), and Ali Ertürk, M.Sc. (Turkey) all contributed to
sections of this chapter.

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