SMART:

Sustainable Management of Scarce Resources in the Coastal Zone

Project Related Publications

Gul, A. (2004)

Research Assistant
Water Resources Management Research and Application Center (SUMER)
Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TURKEY

SMART Sustainable Management of Scarce Resources in the Coastal Zone

Poster presentation at the ECO-IMAGINE OPENING CONFERENCE GI & GIS FOR INTEGRATED COASTAL MANAGEMENT 13th - 15th May 2004, Seville, Spain

ABSTRACT

SMART Project supported within The Fifth European Community Framework Programme (INCO-MED) aims to develop, implement and test a new, participatory but scientifically sound and relational approach to planning and management of the coastal zone. Partners from Italy, France, Portugal, Austria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia comes together to meet a number of scientific objectives of the project with five different case studies in each of the Mediterranean partner countries. In Turkey, Gediz River Basin located in the western part of country has been selected as a case study area, which brings about two major and closely related problems in the western Anatolia along the Aegean Sea. The project also provides the design of a common database that will hold all necessary data for individual case studies which then will be used to perform a comparative analysis between partners to project current situation and suggest some remedial actions.