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Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

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Project • CBA2008-08NSY-Andonowati

Integrating Indonesian Capacity for Coastal Zone Management

The main objective of this project is to identify and to integrate, the existing capacities in areas of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (CZM), in order to become better able to cope with the effects of Global Change (GC). The effects of GC with more extreme weather situations will have serious consequences for the coastal area; a more integrated capacity can be better equipped to cope with the foreseeable problems. In order to increase the integrated capacity project has designed and launched of the open database. An inventory of specific capacities in various areas of CZM are available through an open database website. This database can be used as a tool for each person in the database to public their activities, furthermore the users may have opportunity to build collaboration among them, for instance to exchange data personally.