Seven major issues in the coastal and marine areas of Cambodia were identified:
An almost complete lack of basic infrastructure for coastal and marine environmental management;
The absence of reliable data and base information from which to prepare and implement plans and
projects;
Severely degraded physical infrastructure: roads; irrigation systems; coastal protection dikes, etc.
Continuing lack of security in some of the coastal areas;
A severely inadequate legal and policy framework for coastal and marine environmental management
in particular, and for government and public administration in general;
Pervasive poverty; and
Degradation of productive natural resources, primarily fisheries and forestry resources (including those
contained in protected areas) that results primarily from poverty, a lack of physical infrastructure; and
lack of security.