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Use damage is not a necessary feature of civilization in the 

 estuarine zone, but use conflicts will continue to exist as more 

 and more demands are made on the natural environment. The ability 

 of any management authority to prevent use damage and to resolve use 

 conflicts depends not only upon its institutional composition and 

 legal authority, but also upon the social, economic, and biophysical 

 characteristics of the estuarine management unit within which its 

 authority is exercised. 



The analyses of social and economic values of the estuarine zone 

 examined concurrently with the similar analyses of use conflicts, 

 pollutional effects, and use damages form the basis for resolving 

 use conflicts through the application of technical knowledge, i.e., 

 technical management. 



The primary objective of technical management is to accommodate the 

 needed and desired uses of any estuarine management unit within that 

 system without overall damage to the biophysical environment. The 

 ability to achieve this objective depends on the boundaries of the 

 management unit and upon the means available for resolving both 

 prohibitive use conflicts and restrictive use conflicts. 



The impact of the social and economic requirements of civilization 

 on the natural estuarine environment is the technical problem with 

 whicn management must deal, and effective control of this impact can 

 be maintained only if both the major sources of damage and the 

 geographic range of their influence are subject to unified control. 



