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, executionand management of studies and projects in remote sensing and geographic information systems, oriented towards the resolution of spatial problems namely the ones from the national legislation;
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 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

N/A

Bibliography

Todas as referências existem na biblioteca da NOVAFCSH

  • Barragan, J.M. (2014). Política, Gestión y Litoral. Una nueva vision de la Gestion Integrada de Áreas Litorales. Madrid:Editorial Tébar Flores. 9788473605182
  • Botero, C., Cervantes, O., and Finkl, C. (2018) Beach management tools: concepts, methodologies, and case studies.Springer International Publishing, (960p) ISBN 9783319583037
  • Green, D., King, S. (editors) (2003) Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems: Applying the Technology to theEnvironment (Coastal Systems & Continental Margins S.). Londres, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Kay, R., Alder, J. Coastal planning and management (2005) - 2nd ed. - London: Taylor and Francis. ISBN0415317738
  • Williams, A.T. e Micallef, A. (2009) Beach management: principles and practice. London: Earthscan, Ebook (xxxiv, 435p.) ISBN 9781844074358

Teaching method

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

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Applied project wich complies the elaboration of a beach plan(80%), Individual essay or a review of an article (pages 5-10)(20%)

Subject matter

1. Spatial planning and management of coastal areas

1.1. Definition of coastal area

1.2. The specificities and complexities of coastal areas


1.3. Problems and potentialities of coastal areas

1.4. Coastal Management

2. Planning and Management Instruments for Coastal Areas in Portugal

2.1. Water Public Domain

2.2. National Strategy for the Integrated Coastal Zone Management

2.3. National Strategy for the Sea

2.4. Coastal Zone Management Plans and Programs.

2.5. National Programme of the Spatial Planning Policy

3. GIS for Planning and Management of Coastal Areas

3.1. Coastal Area delimitation

3.2. Definition of human pressure indicators

3.3. Determination of sensitive areas

3.4. Modeling of natural and socio-economic phenomena

3.5. Beach classification. Determination of parking areas and carrying capacities

4. The production of digital cartography for the management of coastal areas

4.1. Sensitivity maps

4.2. Beach Maps