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Publication year : 2010
Thematic : Access and Benefit Sharing
Language : English
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“Integrated†approaches to coastal management (known as integrated coastal zone
management—ICZM) have been adopted widely since the 1992 United Nations Conference
on Environment and Development (UNCED). Decision-support for ICZM demands
that policy align with practice such that stakeholders can access a range of time-series
information across the entire catchment–coastal–marine continuum. Such access, implemented
in spatial enabling technology (e.g., Geographic Information Systems—GIS),
can enable stakeholders to make assessments of the dynamics of changing environmental,
social, demographic, and economic circumstances with more detail than otherwise
possible. However, the level of government at which there is failure to recognize the
potential for up-grading decision-support in these terms dictates the extent to which
innovation is adopted. In Victoria, Australia, ICZM stakeholders are not yet served by
any form of dedicated spatial information–sharing framework, despite ICZM policy
having been implemented in 1995, and since refined on a regular basis. In this article,
we use semi-structured interviews to explore the outlook of Victorian coastal managers
regarding the adoption of spatial information and enabling technology use in support
of ICZM initiatives. Results indicate that the optimal integrated use of the technology
among Victorian ICZM stakeholders is constrained by a lack of relevant policy
implementation, and a lack of supporting stakeholder capacity-building programs. Illumination
of these issues provides information that can be used to guide future research,
policy development, and capacity-building regarding development of an effective spatial
information–sharing and use framework for Victorian ICZM.
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Keywords : Hesperoptenus tickelli
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
