Coastal Management

Concepts, principles and theories relevant to the integrated coastal zone management at catchment scale and coastal zone. Knowledge and understanding a selection of the major topics in the water resources management such as drought and floods, eutrophication, heavy metal pollution, coastal erosion and underlying fundamental principles; Research investigation techniques which might include data acquisition, statistics, modeling and decision making methodologies. Management skills in decision processes include problem definition, objective criteria, project design, decision processes and evaluation needs; teamwork, written and oral reports. Intellectual thinking skills include the ability to analyse and solve problems using a multidisciplinary approach, to intergrate and critically evaluate information, formulate and apply appropriate solutions. The ability to transfer techniques and solutions from one discipline to another and integrate and evaluate information from a variety of sources. The use of practical tools such as scientific literature and computer – based tools to generate data, the execution of computations and technical presentations. Manage resources and time. Use information and communication technology.   

Data analysis and synthesis 

Working in an interdisciplinary environment  

Team work  

Principles of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Protocol. Introduction to the design and analysis of catchment and coastal environment systems. Holistic and integrated analysis and assessment of human impacts in the coastal zone. Social research to evaluate the knowledge and perceptions of the public and decision-makers on coastal zone issues. Remediation and risk reduction measures. Different management options are evaluated in working groups through the development of scenarios and examples. 

Applications: setting the objectives of the project, collecting the necessary data (hydrometeorological, hydrogeochemical and spatial information, socio-economic factors in fisheries and aquaculture, results of previous plans), characterization of the coastal zone according to the existing institutional framework, analysis of environmental problems, hierarchy of scenarios by multicriteria methods, formulation of measures (construction of coastal projects, ecosystem protection) and assessment of these implementation, decision making systems, final management plan. The lab / tutorial exercises that accompany the course introduce students into the use/calibration of simulation tools simulation tools and statistics tools (SPSS).  

a) Basic Textbooks:

Courses notes - Tzoraki Ourania 

Coastal geomorphology – Karybalis E. 

b) Additional References:

Crossland Ch., Coastal Fluxes in the Anthropocene, ISBN-10 3-540-25450-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2005 (e-book) 

Nick Harvey, Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management, ISBN-10 1-4020-3628-0 (e-book)