Code
174W04511
Duration
01 October 2010 → 01 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Ecology
- Environmental science and management
- Other environmental sciences
Keywords
climate change
Project description
Analyse the coastal zone as a resource in climate change mitigation using renewable energy
- Overview of existing and new renewable energy platforms located in the coastal zone
- Develop GIS based tools for finding optimal locations for new renewable energy plants in the coastal zone
- Analyse the conflicts between location demands for energy plants and protection of the coastal zones
Develop a decision support framework for coastal zone management
- Implementation of the system design
- User testing in real coastal zone management contexts
- Final reporting of climate change adaptation and mitigation in ICZM