Abstract
Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS) of 1982 and marine environmental problems caused mainly by drastic coastal zone development or disaster call for coastal states to introduce the new concept of marine and coastal policy. The Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, an output of UNCED Rio Earth Summit in 1992 writes clearly about the need of Integrated Coastal Management to realize sustainable coastal development. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the coastal management system of three East Asia countries(Japan, RO Korea and PR China) and to clarify the stakeholders' composition of the main coastal management law (Japan's Coastal Preservation Law, Korea's Coastal Management Act and China's Sea area Use Management Law). As a result of coastal administration analysis, each country reflects limited factors of ICM. And, in Japan's Coastal Preservation Law, prefecture government plays a main role among stakeholders, while Korea's Coastal Management Act gives initiatives to Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, and China's Sea area Use Management Law shows complicated relations on decision making within central governments.
