Applicability of Decision Support Systems for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Kouwen, Frank van; Dieperink, Carel; Schot, P.P.; Wassen, Martin J.

doi:10.1080/08920750701682007

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“…The causes have been discussed by several literatures (cf. Jones et al, 2002;Uran and Janssen, 2003;Van Kouwen et al, 2008;Westmacott, 2001). We avoid the term DSS because of several reasons as follows:…”

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A Decision Support Framework for the Risk Assessment of Coastal Erosion in the Yangtze Delta

Zhou

Shen

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

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ABSTRACT:Coastal erosion is an issue of widespread concern. As one of the most important economic regions in China, the coast of the Yangtze Delta has been showing a trend towards erosion with global warming and the increasing human activities in the catchment and its estuary. Currently, most published studies about coastal erosion in the area focused on the causes and types of erosion. This paper presents a Decision Support Framework (DSF) for the risk assessment of coastal erosion in consideration of the potential management problems and challenges for economic development in the coastal zone of the Yangtze Delta. The framework consists of four major components: integrated database, GIS-based risk assessment models, scenarios generator and visualization toolkit. Especially, we developed a GIS-based risk assessment model for the muddy coasts of Yangtze Delta. An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, which is instrumental in combining computer intelligence and experts' knowledge, was used to weight the variables of the model. The assessment results show the validity of the approach. Accordingly, the DSF will make the specialized data and information more accessible to managers, and has an extensive capability to facilitate communication and synergetic work between humans and computers. In this way, it is expected to make manager make more scientific decision.

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“…Zone Management (ICZM) early in 1990s, it has a very limited application in coastal management (Van Kouwen et al, 2008). And most of the existing decision support related to coastal erosion was potentially underlain by the complete physical, socioeconomic datasets and the deterministic solutions.…”

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A Decision Support Framework for the Risk Assessment of Coastal Erosion in the Yangtze Delta

Zhou

Shen

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

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“…In Brazil, mariculture has been progressively expanding, mainly since the 1990s due to government programs, which is represented by bivalve mollusks in the South and Southeast These impacts arise mainly from the use of resources, such as space, water, raw materials, and food, reduction of biodiversity, as well as from the production of organic and inorganic waste (e.g., excreta production, introduction of microorganisms, pathogens and parasites in the environment, accumulation of residues of cultivated organisms, and release of antibiotics in the eluent of nurseries and crop laboratories) [3][4][5]10].…”

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NEREU Project: Construction of a Plasma Reactor for Reform of Greenhouse Gases for Treatment of Wastewater of the Marine Farms

Sena¹

2017

Desalination

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The predatory exploitation techniques used for the supply of protein resources have been systematically causing the decrease in seafood. The solution was sought in the form of marine farms, for the purpose of production of ish and seafood. Brazil created an incentive production of seafood in order to increase seafood production. In 1998, the state governments joined the project, encouraging the creation of marine farms without an assessment of the impact on the environment. In 2005, after several records of seafood production in Santa Catarina started an epidemic of white spot shrimp, decimating several ishing farms. In Bahia came the disease lethargic crab, which simply decimated almost 90% of crabs those states. In 2010, the State Government of Bahia invested in research to combat this degradation of mangroves; the project had to in essence deal with the brown mare and help save the ishing industry of the state. It was based on these principles that Nereu project emerged, which provides for the rational and intelligent use of contaminated and hypersaline water of the marine farms from the production area of ish and seafood, in order to neutralize all pathogens and produce pure water with energy cogeneration.

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“…This definition was shortly after elaborated by Janssen [7] stating the overall purposes with DSS as (a) assisting individuals or groups in their decision-making process; (b) supporting rather than replacing judgment of these individuals; and (c) improving effectiveness of decision-making rather than its efficiency. Moving into an ICZM context, van Kouwen et al [8] defined -ICZM-DSS‖ as computer-based system containing information about ICZM issues, and designed to perform analysis supporting coastal managers in decision-making.…”

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An Operational Web-Based Indicator System for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Hansen

Fuglsang

2014

IJGI

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Coastal zones are under severe pressure from anthropogenic activities, as well as on-going climate change with associated sea level rise and increased storminess. These challenges call for integrated and forward looking solutions. The concept on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, as defined during the last twenty years, provides the overall policy frames, but tools to support the planning and management efforts are almost lacking. Furthermore, the forward-looking dimension to embrace the effects of climate change is nearly absent in most implementations. The BLAST project, financed by the European Union Regional Fund through the INTERREG IV North Sea Region Programme, aimed at developing a web-based decision support system to assist Integrated Coastal Zone Management from a climate change perspective, and the current paper describes the methods used and the computing platform for implementing a decision support system. The software applied in developing the system is mainly Open Source components, thus, facilitating a more widespread use of the system.

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Applicability of Decision Support Systems for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Cited by 35 publications

References 37 publications

A Decision Support Framework for the Risk Assessment of Coastal Erosion in the Yangtze Delta

A Decision Support Framework for the Risk Assessment of Coastal Erosion in the Yangtze Delta

NEREU Project: Construction of a Plasma Reactor for Reform of Greenhouse Gases for Treatment of Wastewater of the Marine Farms

An Operational Web-Based Indicator System for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

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