All rights reservedAdel Ismail, Kareem2024-10-032024-10-032016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2032Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southTourism as an activity represents the dilemma of the missing balance between a community’s need for economic revenues, and concerns about sustainability of environmental resources. New Zealand is used as an example of that missing balance, as coastal tourism is gaining more importance in the national economy while creating more pressures on socio-ecological systems. This study addresses the missing balance through investigating the relationship between Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) practice and tourism activity. This study established a mechanism for assessing tourism’s contribution in increasing coastal resilience and eventually achieving a form of sustainable coastal development. This study undertook an initial assessment using five case studies in New Zealand and used them for a preliminary test of the proposed mechanism. This study’s aim carry great importance in a world of change, in an era where environmental threats increase rapidly. The coastal resources specifically are facing serious threats in a global scale ranging from rising sea levels due to global warming to natural hazards like tropical cyclones. In addition to these hazards, our human activities have proven to be equally destructive to these valuable resources through pollution and consistence degradation of these coastal areas.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1130-1132