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Public Access to Beaches: Conflicts and Management

Edited by
Marina Sartore  &  Flavia M. Lins-de-Barros

eBook Publisher:  Editora IVIDES

Raquel Dezidério Souto (Editor-in-chief)

PRESENTATION

This ebook brings together contributions that tackle the challenges of managing public access to beaches, focusing on conflicts,management experiences, as well as conceptual and operational tools. The chapters, which synthesize debates presented at the II Beach Access Network (BAN) Workshop held in Brazil in 2025, offer an analytical framework to address the growing pressures surrounding beach environments, particularly those arising from environmental protection imperatives, social and environmental justice claims, and competing economic interests. In doing so, the volume underscores that beaches, often assumed to be naturally public and free, are socially constructed spaces whose status is historically achieved and continuously contested. Reflecting the core conviction of the Beach Access Network, the volume articulates perspectives from specialists focused on the human dimensions of beaches and those engaged with their environmental dynamics, emphasizing the need to cross disciplinary boundaries. Composed of short chapters, the ebook invites readers to move beyond the common-sense view of beaches as spaces primarily associated with leisure and holidays. By engaging with the contributions gathered here, readers are encouraged to see beaches through multiple lenses and to approach these spaces with greater critical awareness.

EDITORA IVIDES

CNPJ:  56.127.866/0001-12

local of edition: Rio de Janeiro

Year of edition: 2026

1. ed.  |  153 p.

ISBN: 978-65-985676-4-4

DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.19058568

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SARTORE, Marina; LINS-DE-BARROS, Flavia Moraes (ed.). Public Access to Beaches: Conflicts and Management. Rio de Janeiro: Editora IVIDES, 2026. 153 p. ISBN: 978-65-985676-4-4. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19058568.