COASTAL GOVERNANCE,PLANNING AND DESIGN AND GI

This working group will deal about 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, and 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.
In this working group the features of GIS techniques 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 level, forecasting and 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, GIS will be presented also as an useful way to keep them 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.

Chairman:
Ivica Trumbic, UNEP-Mediterranean Action Plan; Priority Actions Programme - Regional Activity Centre (PAP/RAC), Split (HR)    E-mail: ivica.trumbic@ppa.tel.hr

Related events:
Thematic Conference: November 04, Genova (IT)
Training Course: Autumn 05, Nice (FR)

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