While coastal management has been recognized as an urgent and strategic process since 1970s worldwide, it is still struggling to show robust outcomes in some countries and even among regions within countries. Coastal Ecological and Economic Zoning was proposed in 1988 as an integrated environmental and territorial management tool by the Brazilian National Coastal Management Plan (NCMP). This paper applied a recently-developed methodological framework towards the analysis of C-EEZ implementation processes in the context of the 17 coastal States in Brazil. The results evidence particularities that may improve coastal management policies and highlights the situation of late consolidation of this management tool, with evident asymmetries along the Brazilian coast. Although the C-EEZ is one of the most enduring initiatives in coastal management in Brazil, some critical issues still need to be solved, such as articulation among sectors of society, generation of technical products for society, provision of State’s annual budget laws, integration with land territorial management policies, identification and mitigation of conflicts throughout the territory and its uses, foster public participation, integration between the technical teams and public spheres, and guidance on environmental licensing processes by the states. Finally, it is proposed that the discussion be brought to the social actors involved with the coastal management theme, seeking to optimized efforts and financial, material and human resources, aiming for greater effectiveness of what really matters: the sustainable development of the coastal zone in Brazil.

自从1970年代以来，全球范围内的沿海管理已被认为是紧迫而战略性的过程，但它仍在努力显示出一些国家甚至国家内部各地区的强劲成果。沿海生态和经济区划是由巴西国家沿海管理计划（NCMP）于1988年提出的，它是一种综合的环境和领土管理工具。本文在巴西的17个沿海国家的背景下，将最近开发的方法框架应用于C-EEZ实施过程的分析。结果证明了可以改善沿海地区管理政策的特殊性，并突出了该管理工具后期合并的情况，而巴西沿海地区存在明显的不对称性。尽管C-EEZ是巴西沿海管理中最持久的举措之一，但仍需要解决一些关键问题，例如社会各部门之间的衔接，为社会生产技术产品，提供国家年度预算法，整合制定土地领土管理政策，识别和缓解整个领土及其使用中的冲突，促进公众参与，技术团队与公共领域之间的整合以及各州对环境许可程序的指导。最后，建议将讨论纳入与沿海管理主题有关的社会参与者，以寻求最佳的努力以及财政，物质和人力资源，以期在真正重要的问题上发挥更大的作用：