BUILDING COASTAL KNOWLEDGE AND GI

This working group will deal with the issues related to the availability and easy accessibility of appropriate data and information about coastal issues.
This implies on one hand, the collection of data on a scientific base, the quick elaboration of raw data, the possibility to update them continuously; on the other hand the need to share the information and to make it suitable also for not expert final users.
In particular, in the perspective of a landscape based approach, the need to integrate the information related with natural disciplines, such as chemistry or biology with data deriving from human sciences. Moreover, an integrated approach to coastal area cannot leave the stakeholders' needs, either material or not, out of consideration. As a consequence, the perception of the area and of its problems, and the hints for its management, historical and cultural issues contribute to create a comprehensive knowledge of the area.
Hence the need of taking advantage of the current trend for more and more GI comprehensive tools (e.g. new ways for data collection and sharing, Internet access to data and information, etc.) to outline an action oriented general knowledge framework of a coastal area.

Chairmen:
Juan Luis Suarez de Vivero, University of Seville (ES)      E-mail: vivero@us.es
Jose Ojeda, University of Seville (ES)     E-mail: zujar@us.es

Related events:
Thematic Conference: June 2006, Cork (IE)

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