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Preface.-- Summary.-- How Coastal Managers learn today.-- Learning networks and coastal management.-- Technological change and coastal management.-- Recommendations.-- Introduction.-- Impetus for and scope of the study.-- Study methods.--- Innovation and information sharing today.-- Coastal environmental activism.-- The private sector and coastal management.-- What drives change in coastal management practice?-- Where do coastal managers go for ideas and information?-- How do innovations spread?-- Future information sharing--Overcoming bariers and constraings.-- Conclusions and recommendations.-- Learning from learning networks.-- Shaping coastal management networks.-- Learning in networks.-- Implications for coastal management.-- Conclusions and recommendations.-- The Promise and limits of technology.-- The Internet and the World Wide Web.-- Geographic Information Systems.-- New sensor's technologies.-- Technology's influence on coastal management practice.-- Conclusions and recommendations.-- Appendixes.-- References.