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- Title
Integrated maritime policy for the European Union -- consolidating coastal and marine information to support maritime spatial planning.
- Authors
Meiner, Andrus
- Abstract
Launch of the Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union in 2007 served as important factor that stimulates consolidation of coastal and marine information to support policy implementation. Policy's action plan provides approaches for maritime governance, research and planning relevant to information. In particular, roadmap for maritime spatial planning stimulates development of coastal and marine GIS. Article reviews the current general status of coastal and marine systems and puts them in the context of the policy actions. Main focus is on formation of geospatial information platform for integrated assessment and ecosystem-based management of coastal and marine areas. Recent developments in data, indicator and information systems are summarized in European perspective: better characterization of maritime space and marine ecosystems, development of GMES Marine Core service and related in situ data collection; data harmonisation, interoperability and access, promoted by Shared Environmental Information System principles.
- Subjects
MARITIME law; COASTAL zone management; EUROPEAN Union; MARINE geographic information systems; GEOGRAPHIC information systems
- Publication
Journal of Coastal Conservation (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.), 2010, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1400-0350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11852-009-0077-4