scholarly journals Integrated Methodological Approach for the Documentation of Marine Priority Habitats and Submerged Antiquities: Examples from the Saronic Gulf, Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12327
Author(s):  
Nikos Georgiou ◽  
Xenophon Dimas ◽  
George Papatheodorou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
Anthropogenic Intervention

The rising human activities and resource exploitation have increased pressure in the coastal zone and the marine environment, risking the very existence of Marine Priority Habitats (MPH) and Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). The delimitation of these two priority areas in a time- and cost-effective way is essential for the sustainable management and exploitation of sea resources and natural-cultural heritage preservation. We propose an Integrated Methodological Approach for the Detection and Mapping of MPH and UCH. To achieve this, we used a downscale methodological approach of increasing spatial resolution based on three main methodological axes: (i) desk-based research, (ii) marine geophysics/seafloor classification, and (iii) in-depth visual inspection/3D mapping. This methodological scheme was implemented at the Saronic Gulf and focused on Aegina island. The methodology proposed, which combines existing and new techniques, proved successful in detecting and mapping the MPH and UCH in detail, while it compiled the information necessary for the establishment of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) maps. Finally, the MSP map constructed for the Saronic Gulf demonstrated the lack of holistic coastal zone management plans due to impacts on UCH linked to anthropogenic intervention and the sparsity of marine habitats owing to marine pollution.

Coastal and Marine Geography

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert P. Psuty ◽  
Philip E. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Marine Geography ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
The Us ◽  
Marine Areas

The 1990s witnessed a significant increase in popular interest in the US regarding the geography of the world’s coastal and marine spaces. Factors motivating this renewed interest included growing public environmental awareness, a decade of unusually severe coastal storms, more frequent reporting of marine pollution hazards, greater knowledge about (and technology for) depleting fishstocks, domestic legislation on coastal zone management and offshore fisheries policies, new opportunities for marine mineral extraction, heightened understanding of the role of marine life in maintaining the global ecosystem, new techniques for undertaking marine exploration, the 1994 activation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, reauthorization of the US Coastal Zone Management Act in 1996, and designation of 1998 as the International Year of the Ocean. Responding to this situation, the breadth of perspectives from which coastal and marine issues are being encountered by geographers, the range of subjects investigated, and the number of geographers engaging in coastal-marine research have all increased during the 1990s. As West (1989a) reported in the original Geography in America, North American coastal-marine geography during the 1980s was focused toward fields such as coastal geomorphology, ports and shipping, coastal zone management, and tourism and recreation. Research in these areas has continued, but in the 1990s, with increased awareness of the importance of coastal and marine areas to physical and human systems, geographers from a range of subdisciplines beyond those usually associated with coastal-marine geography have begun turning to coastal and marine areas as fruitful sites for conducting their research. Climatologists are investigating the sea in order to understand processes such as El Niño, remote-sensing experts are studying how sonic imagery can be used for understanding species distribution in three-dimensional environments, political ecologists are investigating the ocean as a common property resource in which multiple users’ agendas portend conflict and cooperation, and cultural geographers are examining how the ocean is constructed as a distinct space with its own social meanings and “seascapes.” Despite (or perhaps because of ) this expansion in coastal-marine geography, the subdiscipline remains fragmented into what we here call “Coastal Physical Geography,” “Marine Physical Geography,” and “Coastal-Marine Human Geography.”

scholarly journals Integrated Coastal Zone Management of Natura 2000 and cultural heritage sites in Calabrian coastal landscape (Southern Italy)

2020 ◽  
pp. 338-347
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Tagarelli ◽  
Nicola Cantasano ◽  
Tommaso Caloiero ◽  
Gaetano Pellicone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Integrated Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Zone Management

This study shows the link connecting natural and cultural goods in the coastal landscape of Calabria (Southern Italy), considering seaboard and human impact risk conditions. In fact, Calabria has 58 Natura 2000 sites located on seaboard areas within a length of 300 meters from coast and 63 cultural heritage sites of which 42.9% coincides with the Natura 2000 network. As a results of this paper, the increasing coastal erosion and a heavy human impact have been highlighted as the main hazards to which the natural and cultural goods are exposed, thus it’s necessary a broader approach for the integration of natural and cultural issues into an active Integrated Coastal Zone Management process

Integrated Approach to Coastal Zone Management in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 433-440
Author(s):  
O C A Iriberri
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Single Fragment ◽  
Human Attitude ◽  
And Migration

Coastal zone management requires an understanding of the complex milieu of interactions and activities taking place in an environmental system. Man is beginning to recognize that the old method of dealing with individual issues and problems as single fragment of a whole ecosystem is not enough. This paper tries to deal with the integrated manner in carrying out effectively the management of the coastal zone in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro by the Man and the Biosphere Interagency Committee on Ecological Studies. To attain the objective of the project, the different agencies monitor, identify, observe, investigate various natural and physical parameters contributing to the ecological balance and study the rational use of the resources along the coastal zone. Result of the study showed that although such factors as land use practices of shifting cultivation (kaingin), human attitude towards forest and its resources, and continuous increase in population and migration of people were observed, such pressure on lands has not greatly affected the Puerto Galera coastal zone resources.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in coastal zone management—a review

2021 ◽  
Vol 193 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Adade ◽  
Abiodun Musa Aibinu ◽  
Bernard Ekumah ◽  
Jerry Asaana
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Aerial Vehicle
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