A Systematic Approach of Greek Coastal Zone Management

A Systematic Approach of Greek Coastal Zone Management

Lioutas, A.
Tsimopoulou, V.

Stive, M.J.F. (mentor)
Verhagen, H.J. (mentor)
Van Hijum, E. (mentor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

2010-10-01

Additional MSc thesis Greece owns the most extensive coastline of all European countries. Greek economy relies on the protection and the development of the coast, where major economic activities take place and where about 60% of the population lives. Despite the crucial role of the coastal zone in Greece, there is no organized integrated act with regard to coastal zone management. This project introduces the development and application of a database of all the Greek coasts. The main objective of this project is to take a first step towards an integrated coastal zone management, by developing a tool for primarily identifying any piece of Greek coast, and secondarily accomplishing a coastal classification with regard to physical characteristics and social-economic activities. In order to decide about the content of the database and to come up with a proper structure, it was first necessary to define the main issues related to the Greek coasts, such as touristic development or environmental protection of a wetland, as well as to identify the possible users of the database and the kind of information that they would demand. The range of possible users has proved to be very wide, and therefore the range of information included in the database is wide too. The main data fields are the following: • Type of coast: beach / rocky coast / wetland / port etc • Geographical aspects: coordinates / province / prefecture • Physical aspects: geological features/ beach length, width/ sediment grain size • Hydraulic aspects: wind speed and direction / significant wave height • Other general aspects: existence of fisheries / industry / urbanized areas etc. The database has been developed with web-based software and is accessible via the internet in the address www.greekcoasts.info.

Greece
Coastal Zone Management
database development
data analysis

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2014-04-26

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Tsimopoulou, V.