For him and for others, that is all the more reason for keeping property under the protection of the coastal law.

But much of the rest of it is covered with single-family houses, almost all of them built since the coastal law was enacted.

By the turn of the century, Pilkey's code for living peacebly with the shore may be cemented into coastal laws worldwide.

Compliance with coastal law.

In February 2000 the state changed its coastal law to align it with its state Development and Redevelopment Plan.

M.) degree in taxation, estate planning, real property, comparative law, inter-American law, international law, and ocean and coastal law.

Prof. Oliver A. Houck of Tulane Law School, an expert on coastal law, said a sand rights theory could have profound implications for Louisiana.

We are calling for all European cofinancing linked to reconstruction and restoration to be conditional on respect for the law: coastal law and prevention plans relating to flood risk.

Elsewhere, loopholes in the coastal law and what some experts describe as loose application of its provisions have meant that property owners who might have been barred from benefits have received them.

At the Matignon process under the Jospin government, Article 12 of the Matignon Accords provided for an adjustment of the coastal law making it easier to issue building permits on the Corsican coast.

Torrance Downes, a planner with the Old Saybrook-based agency, said the clashes between the public, who love the lower river's beauty, and the property owners, who have rights, reflected a clash in values that state coastal laws don't cover.

Antonio Ianello, a senior official at the Environment Ministry in Rome, said that little had changed despite a coastal law passed in 1985 "to stop the rampant construction and monstruous speculation" by prohibiting building within 300 yards of the shoreline.

Called "a citizen's guide to the Coastal Zone Management Act and other coastal laws," this little paperback describes the degradation or loss of our shore areas to various causes, including sewage, ocean dumping, housing developments, ocean bottom mining and drilling for gas and oil.

Five major agencies (MSA, SOA, CCG, FLEC, GAC), plus the local People's Police and other local units, divide maritime and coastal law enforcement, safety and administrative duties, with much overlap in formal remits.