Training of coastal engineers to work in a non-engineering environment

Training of coastal engineers to work in a non-engineering environment

Burgmeijer, M.A.
Verhagen, H.J.
Van der Wegen, M.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

2011-11-15

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is an interdisciplinary process by definition. Individual actors in CZM need to cooperate and communicate to come to an optimum management strategy for the coastal zone. Because engineers focus on finding the “best” solution in engineering terms, they often are quite surprised that in the end of the day their best solution is not considered as the best solution by the other participants in the process. At Delft University and UNESCO-IHE we started in 1990 with a course on ICZM, which evolved into a training course for engineers to make them aware of this point and to train them in communication with other professionals [Verhagen, 1995]. This paper will give an overview of the experience with this course gained over the last 20 years.

coastal zone management
training

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:664583ca-9dea-45f6-9abe-ae49e49adb33

Thomas Telford

978-0-7277-5749-4

Innovative Coastal Zone Management. Coastal Management Conference 2011: Sustainable Engineering for a Dynamic Coast, Belfast, UK, 15-16 November 2011; Authors version

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conference paper

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