Approaches to knowledge sharing and capacity building: The role of local information systems in marine and coastal management
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of an Information System is defined and described, and the potential role of Local Information System (LIS) in integrated coastal management (ICM) is considered.
About: This article is published in Ocean & Coastal Management.The article was published on 2010-12-01. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information system & Local information systems.
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TL;DR: A shift towards dynamic ocean management is suggested, defined as management that rapidly changes in space and time in response to changes in the ocean and its users through the integration of near real-time biological, oceanographic, social and/or economic data.
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...Further, in existing dynamic management applications, stakeholders are included in the data collection process, often using handheld technology [38,46]; this inclusion can increase participation, buy in and potential compliance, though challenges do exist for data sharing of this kind [54]....
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TL;DR: In this article, the use of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) method of Kaplan and Norton (1992) has been used for the strategic assessment of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) plans and projects.
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TL;DR: 7th IFAC Symposium on COST ORIENTED AUTOMATION (COA 2004), JUNE 7-9, 2004, OTTAWA/GATINEAU (CANADA) as mentioned in this paper
Abstract: 7TH IFAC SYMP. ON COST ORIENTED AUTOMATION (COA 2004), JUNE 7–9, 2004, OTTAWA/GATINEAU (CANADA)
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed the principal marine and coastal policy changes in England since 1999 and identified the key changes identified are the establishment of a strategic national marine and coast policy direction, new marine legislation and institutions, the emergence of a marine planning framework, the consolidation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management approaches to coastal governance, the creation of a Marine Protected Area network, and the decline of coastal partnerships.
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TL;DR: The results indicate that ISQ directly improves OP and TR has a moderating effect on the relationship between ISQ and OP, which can enhance the positive influence ISQ has on OP.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of information system quality (ISQ) and technology readiness (TR) on organizational performance (OP), from the background that the construction industry pursues higher performance and service quality.Design/methodology/approach – A survey questionnaire was used. The hierarchical regression analysis was employed to analyze the 545 valid questionnaires collected (valid return rate: 54.5 percent) from construction industry employees in Taiwan.Findings – The results indicate that ISQ directly improves OP. Particularly, TR has a moderating effect on the relationship between ISQ and OP. TR can enhance the positive influence ISQ has on OP.Research limitations/implications – Data sources for this study were restricted by the respondents' cognition and experience regarding ISQ and OP. Biases may exist among respondents. In addition, the collected data were related to the Taiwan construction industry, which may differ from operating environments and ch...
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
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This ambitious book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable.
Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He points out that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may be less mass unemployment than the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented socialstructure.
The author concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on mass media culture ("the culture of real virtuality"), on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time and history. Written by one of the worlds leading social thinkers and researchers The Rise of the Network Society is the first of three linked investigations of contemporary global, economic, political and social change. It is a work of outstanding penetration, originality, and importance.
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TL;DR: This comprehensive global assessment of 215 studies found that seagrasses have been disappearing at a rate of 110 km2 yr−1 since 1980 and that 29% of the known areal extent has disappeared since seagRass areas were initially recorded in 1879.
Abstract: Coastal ecosystems and the services they provide are adversely affected by a wide variety of human activities. In particular, seagrass meadows are negatively affected by impacts accruing from the billion or more people who live within 50 km of them. Seagrass meadows provide important ecosystem services, including an estimated $1.9 trillion per year in the form of nutrient cycling; an order of magnitude enhancement of coral reef fish productivity; a habitat for thousands of fish, bird, and invertebrate species; and a major food source for endangered dugong, manatee, and green turtle. Although individual impacts from coastal development, degraded water quality, and climate change have been documented, there has been no quantitative global assessment of seagrass loss until now. Our comprehensive global assessment of 215 studies found that seagrasses have been disappearing at a rate of 110 km(2) yr(-1) since 1980 and that 29% of the known areal extent has disappeared since seagrass areas were initially recorded in 1879. Furthermore, rates of decline have accelerated from a median of 0.9% yr(-1) before 1940 to 7% yr(-1) since 1990. Seagrass loss rates are comparable to those reported for mangroves, coral reefs, and tropical rainforests and place seagrass meadows among the most threatened ecosystems on earth.
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TL;DR: In the last decade of this century, the developed free-market countries are all qualitatively and quantitatively different from what they were in the first years of the 20th century but also from what has existed at any other time in history as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: No century in recorded history has experienced so many social transformations and such radical ones as the twentieth century. They, I submit, may turn out to be the most significant events of this, our century, and its lasting legacy. In the developed free-market countries--which contain less than a fifth of the earth's population but are a model for the rest--work and work force, society and polity, are all, in the last decade of this century, qualitatively and quantitatively different not only from what they were in the first years of this century but also from what has existed at any other time in history: in their configurations, in their processes, in their problems, and in their structures.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify challenges inherent in addressing multi-scale environmental problems, and outline tentative guidelines for addressing such challenges and linking science and policy across scales, including matching scales of biogeophysical systems with scales of management systems, avoiding scale discordance, and accounting for cross-scale dynamics.
Abstract: This paper identi"es challenges inherent in addressing multi-scale environmental problems, and outlines tentative guidelines for addressing such challenges and linking science and policy across scales. The study and practice of environmental assessment and management increasingly recognize the importance of scale and cross-scale dynamics in understanding and addressing global environmental change. These ongoing e!orts, however, lack a systematic way of thinking about and addressing the challenges involved in integrating science and policy across multiple scales, for example, in the design of policy-relevant, scienti"c assessments of problems such as climate change. These challenges include matching scales of biogeophysical systems with scales of management systems, avoiding scale discordance (matching the scale of the assessment with the scale of management), and accounting for cross-scale dynamics. In this paper we propose tentative guidelines for meeting such challenges for both assessors and decisionmakers: (1) utilize boundary organizations* institutions which serve to mediate between scientists and decision-makers, and between these actors at di!erent scales; (2) utilize scale-dependent comparative advantages * coordinating the allocation of resources, technical expertise, and decision-making authority to best capitalize on scale-speci"c capabilities; and (3) employ adaptive assessment and management strategies * constructing long-term, iterative, experiment-based processes of integrated assessment and management. ( 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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