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Geographic Information Systems and Coastal Planning

Objectives

a) To raise awareness of the coastal zone complexity and the emerging conflicts of its usage;
b) To deepen the knowledge about tools, scientific and technical processes that support the preparation, execution and management of studies and projects in remote sensing and geographic information systems, oriented towards the resolution of spatial problems;
c) to develop the knowledge about geographic data acquisition, integration, exploration and spatial analysis, applied to coastal zone planning;
d) To develop the ability to create and evaluate coastal zone planning proposals;
e) To develop Geographical Information Systems (GIS) solutions in order to model human pressure phenomena over coastal areas;
f) To develop skills to promote autonomous learning and usage of remote sensing and GIS software applied to coastal areas.

General characterization

Code

722041085

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Carlos Manuel Prudente Pereira da Silva

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Non applicable

Bibliography

Bartlett, D. & Smith, J. (ed.) (2004). GIS for Coastal Zone Management. Londres: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis.
Barragan, J.M. (2014). Política, Gestión y Litoral. Una nueva vision de la Gestion Integrada de Áreas Litorales. Madrid: Editorial Tébar Flores.
Carter, R. W. G. (1988). Coastal Environments. Londres, Academic Press.
Green, D. & King, S. (ed.) (2003). Coastal and Marine GeoInformation Systems: Applying the Technology to the Environment (Coastal Systems & Continental Margins S.). London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pereira da Silva, C. (2002). Gestão Litoral: A Integração de Estudos de Percepção da Paisagem e Imagens Digitais na Definição da Capacidade de Carga de Praias – O Troço Litoral S.TorpesIlha do Pessegueiro. Lisboa: FCSH/UNL. [Tese de Doutoramento].

Teaching method

Expositive and participative classes (debate); group work; study visits; and laboratory classes.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1) Spatial planning and management of coastal areas
1.1. Definition of coastal area
1.2. Particularities of coastal areas
1.3. Problems and potentialities of coastal areas
1.4. Management of coastal areas
2) Tools for spatial planning and management of coastal areas in Portugal
2.1. Water Public Domain
2.2. Coastal Zone Spatial Plans
2.3. Watershed Plans
2.4. Oceans Strategy
2.5. National Programme of Spacial Planning Policy
3) GIS for spatial planning and management of coastal areas
3.1. Coastal area delimitation
3.2. Human Pressure indicators
3.3. Sensitive areas definition
3.4. Models for natural and socioeconomic phenomena
3.5. Beach classification, parking lot determination and carrying capacity
4) Digital cartography production for spatial planning of coastal areas
4.1. Constraints maps
4.2. Beach plans