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