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11 th International Symposium for GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zones Managementscale that is useful for national and local applications. Ongoing consultation with national stakeholders prior to,during and after development and publication of the atlases, through the ODINAFRICA programme, is ensuringthat user needs are being met and is helping to consolidate interest in and ownership of the national and regionalatlases.Some of the challenges faced in developing the atlases to date include: (i) very varied expectations of anonline data atlas, (ii) management of the metadata, (iii) choosing data formats and standard legends, (iv)selecting appropriate regional and national data of interest and meaning, (v) logistics of working together fromseveral countries, (vi) remote access to servers, (vii) access to the Internet from some of the countries, (viii)getting and recording specific permissions and complex data citations (especially for biological data). Aneditorial board was set-up to address some of these issues.SmartAtlas has been developed in a modular way in order to allow easier optimization and upgrades in thefuture. From a user perspective it is an easy to use platform, which allows the rapid addition of GIS data layersand associated metadata and the ability to publish them on the Web, without the necessity for detailedknowledge of web mapping technologies and associated software. It is a much needed platform to share spatialdata that has been collected during projects at great costs, but has never been made available to the broadercommunities. As the same platform is being used across all the national African atlases, it facilitates thebuilding of a knowledge community, exchange of know-how and mutual support. Moreover, it allows usercountries to install the atlas on national servers to be used by the host institutes even in the absence of reliablebroadband internet. The development also demonstrates the benefits of membership of the ICAN, wheremembers with different skills can collaborate to assist in capacity building and knowledge and technologytransfer. ICAN has recently been adopted by the IOC as an IODE project, thereby allowing deeper collaborationwith other projects and initiatives supported by the IODE.Software libraries used are licensed under open licenses which allows code reuse and distribution. SmartAtlas is distributed under a GPL 3.0 open source license so other developers can browse the source code andmodify it for their specific needs or build on top of it to support broader functionality.The SmartAtlas interface may be viewed at smartatlas.ucc.ie and the software package may be downloaded,after simple registration at smartatlas.ucc.ie/downloads.ReferencesDe la Beaujardière, J. (2004), “ OGC Web Map Service Interface (Version 1.3.0)”. Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.Dwyer, N., K. Kopke, V. Cummins, E. O’Dea, and D. Dunne (2010), “Ireland”. In: D. Wright, E. Dwyer and V. Cummins(eds.). Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation, Published by: Information Science Reference, IGIGlobal: 105–130.Nebert, D. and A.Whiteside (2005), “ OGC Catalogue Services Specification”. Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.Scott, L.P.E. and G. Reed (2010), “Africa”. In: D. Wright, E. Dwyer and V. Cummins (eds.). Coastal Informatics: WebAtlas Design and Implementation, Published by: Information Science Reference, IGI Global: 165–170.UNESCO (2010), "First ODINAFRICA Coastal and Marine Atlases Planning meeting, IOC Project Office for IODE,Oostende, Belgium, 12 -1 4 October 2009”, (IOC Workshop Report No. 231), UNESCO, Paris, France, 49p.Wright, D., V. Cummins, and N. Dwyer (2010), “The international coastal atlas network”. In: D. Wright, E. Dwyer and V.Cummins (eds.). Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation, Information Science Reference, IGIGlobal: 229–238.178
Spatially explicit scenarios for conservation planning in the Great BarrierReef coastal zone, AustraliaAmélie A. Augé 1 , Mirjam Maughan 1 , Robert L. Pressey 1 , Jon Brodie 2 , Allan Dale 3 & Hugh Yorkston 41 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australiaamelie.auge@jcu.edu.au, mirjam.maughan@jcu.edu.au, bob.pressey@jcu.edu.au2 TropWater, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australiajon.brodie@jcu.edu.au3 The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australiaallan.dale@jcu.edu.au4 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australiahugh.yorkston@gbrmpa.gov.auAbstractThe Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) borders the east coast of Northern Australia foralmost 2000 km. Parts of this coast have been extensively developed with planned and potential further coastaldevelopments, including for mining, ports, agriculture, urban, industrial and tourism. These developments maythreaten the health of the GBRWHA through sediment, nutrient and pollutant run-off and habitat loss. In thecontext of conservation planning, the future must be taken into consideration to understand which ecosystems,species or ecological processes may be at risk and where. However, future coastal development is difficult topredict as it depends on volatile socio-economic factors. With this in mind, we develop a research project thatuses spatially explicit scenario planning to identify plausible futures to 2035 for the GBRWHA coastal zone.Land use change modelling to produce eight scenarios is being done with GIS. The resulting maps of scenariosallow for comprehensive conservation planning.IntroductionThe Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and its lagoon, along the coast of northern Queensland, Australia, have beenclassified as a World Heritage Area (the GBRWHA) since 1981. Most of this WHA (with the exception of smallareas reserved for ports) is also protected up to the shoreline as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP)(Figure 1). Hence, most of the marine part of the coastal zone is protected under federal law and consistentlymanaged. However, neither the GBRWHA nor the GBRMP cover any of the terrestrial or freshwater coastalzone. This part of the coastal zone, however, is the “backbone” of the GBR. The terrestrial and freshwater partsof the coastal zone include substantial areas of forests and woodland, estuarine vegetation, mangroves andfreshwater wetlands. These non-marine coastal ecosystems can act as a buffer between the land and the sea andfilter run-off from land, limiting the amount of sediment and pollutants reaching the GBR lagoon (Great BarrierReef Marine Park Authority, 2009). Coastal development has taken place in numerous areas of the GBR coastleading to degradation or loss of coastal ecosystems, increase in run-off (sediments and nutrients) in the lagoonand intensification of dredging in the lagoon, stirring up sediments and pollutants (Wolanski and De'ath, 2005;Brodie et al., 2012). Economic activities in the GBR coastal zone are set to expand and intensify with numerouson-going coastal development projects and further plans to increase export capacity and tourist numbers alongwith expanding agricultural and urban areas (Waterhouse et al., 2010)The pressure from coastal development along the GBRWHA led the United Nations World Heritagecommittee to warn the Australian government that better coastal management and policies are required. Thecoral cover on reefs in the GBR has declined on average by half over the period 1986-2011 due to thecombination of natural and human-induced causes (De’ath et al., 2012). Maintaining functioning coastalecosystems and limiting disturbance, pollution risks and run-off are some of the main steps that will allow theGBR to recover and be resilient to future climatic events (Brodie and Waterhouse, 2012). Conservation planningdetermines the best spatial use of limited conservation resources to minimise the loss of valued aspects of thenatural world associated with human development (Margules and Pressey, 2000). In the context of coastaldevelopment and land use change, conservation planning is faced with a significant challenge. The threats toecosystems and species are highly uncertain. In Queensland, they mostly depend on volatile foreign economicfactors that dictate which development will take place and where. Consequently, conservation planning for theGBR coastal zone requires an understanding of plausible future development and land use change.179
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