Application and evaluation of an indicator set to measure and promote sustainable development in coastal areas

Assessing coastal management case studies around Europe using an indicator based tool

“…There might be a relation, between language skills and the time consumed for one evaluation. The evaluator with a very good command in English only took 5 h to complete the assessment, whereas the third evaluator, needed more than 13 h. This was already observed in previous assessments of various indicator sets, for example by Schernewski et al (2014).…”

“…This would furthermore increase the potential in data processing and lead to more significant results. According to Schernewski et al (2014) this resulted in a stabilisation of the results and reduced subjectivity. Results also depend on the evaluators expertise in a specific study site.…”

“…The project DEDUCE developed a list of 27 indicators which were simplified and streamlined into 15 coastal sustainability indicators (Gvilava et al 2015;DEDUCE Consortium 2007). Project SUSTAIN provided a set of indicators designed to measure sustainable development in coastal areas on a local and regional level (Schernewski et al 2014). Most of the existing guidelines for ICZM underline the importance of indicators to monitor states and developments in coastal zones and to assess performance (Belfiore et al 2003;Hoffmann 2009;Gallagher 2010;Meiner 2010;Burbridge 1997;Scottish Executive Central Research Unit 2001).…”

Aportes para la gobernanza marino-costera: gestión del riesgo, gobernabilidad y distritos costeros

“…Por lo tanto, los indicadores se "intencionan" desde su origen (Quiroga, 2009), lo cual hace recaer una enorme responsabilidad en el equipo de investigación que los diseña. No obstante, los ejercicios de diseño de indicadores se pueden contar por cientos, o quizá miles, dificultando el seguimiento a la rigurosidad necesaria de cada iniciativa; solo en gestión costera integrada se pueden citar varias decenas de iniciativas por año (Burbridge, 1997;Van Buuren et al, 2002;Ehler, 2003;Henocque, 2003;Olsen, 2003;Pickaver et al, 2004;Sarda et al, 2005;Belfiore et al, 2006;Lescrauwaet et al, 2006;Schernewski et al, 2006;Breton, 2006;Wallis, 2006;Bell y Morse, 2008;Hoffmann, 2009;O'Mahony et al, 2009;Pickaver, 2009;Ballinger et al, 2010;Schernewski et al, 2014).…”

The Study of the Coastal Management Criteria Based on Risk Assessmeant: A Case Study on Yunlin Coast, Taiwan

“…Possible losses increase when vulnerability increases (Cutter, 1996) [8]. Different variables have been used to evaluate coastal vulnerability according to the research orientation and perspective, for example the effect of sea-level rise (Khouakhi et al, 2013;Özyurt and Ergin, 2010), coastal erosion (Fitton et al, 2016;Merlotto, et al, 2016;Tarragoni et al, 2014), and sustainable development (Schernewski et al, 2014) [9][10][11][12][13][14]. Generally speaking, the variables can be categorized into geophysical, social, and socio-environmental contexts (Zanetti et al, 2016) [15].…”