Training course: COASTAL GOVERNANCE, PLANNING, DESIGN AND GI
Nice (FR), 21st – 26th November 2005
Convenor: Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
The course will deal with the sustainable management of
coastal resources, through the different phases of a ICM programme. On
the governance level it includes the definition of the policies for the
coastal area, the choices and the needs that lead to start an ICM programme,
together with its general objectives.
In the planning phase, strategies, the specific objectives and the extension
of the intervention are outlined, in an operational perspective. At this
stage of the process the integration among scientists, actors, planners
and decision makers must be carefully set out to ensure the comprehensiveness
of the following actions. Moreover, budget, timing, available skills,
conflicting situation are key issues to discuss.
The premises and the strategies set in the previous phases are implemented
in the design phase through specific actions. The operational scale is
often local and integration is required especially between the ICM promoters
and operators and local communities.
The context analysis together with the GI features able to build the base
framework for the developing of an ICM programme will be discussed as
well as the GIS capability to face evolving situations, expressed either
at the proposal and forecasting level (showing the expected outputs and
consequences of the different management options) or at the assessment
level (evaluating the effectiveness of the interventions, and the impact
of the management on the coastal area).
Moreover, since ICM involves the participation of local communities, GI
is presented also as an useful way to keep those communities in touch
with operators and planners, either by collecting and including local
inputs, or by supplying user friendly representations of the different
options and the expected results of the management.
This course is considered an important element to offer to the present, European and non European, research environment a better and more efficacious vision of actual problems present in coastal planning and management from a tutorial and practical point of view. It foresees introductory and tutorial seminars, technical presentations and group discussions and is structured in order to favour active participation of the attendants, who will be stimulated to discuss through simulations and exercises and comparison of the possible solutions.
The poster session is planned to allow the various research groups to outline their activity and to reinforce the mutual knowledge also in a perspective of collaboration.