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Coastal Zones 2016
May 16-18, 2016
Volume 4, Issue 1(Suppl) Oceanography 2016
ISSN:2332-2632, OCN an open access journal
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May 16-18, 2016 Osaka, Japan
Coastal Zones International Conference on
Oceanography 2016, 4:1(Suppl)
Coastal management in Malaysia: Appreciation to geographic information system problem
solutions
Mohd Zulkifli Mohd Yunus
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Research on coastal management has been quite intensive over the last decades in Malaysia. Determining the coastal
vulnerability index is one of the most complex analyses due to different effects of various parameters. The objective of
this article is to promote the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for coastal management problem solving.
Hence, in this study, GIS is proposed to determine the coastal management with special focus on the Malaysia coastal and
tsunami vulnerability assessment, and coastal erosion problems. This methodology has been implemented on a case study
region in north, center and south of Peninsular Malaysia, and therefore the parameters criteria have been obtained for the case
study conditions. The assessment was conducted in three phases which extended diagonally from a macro-scale to several
local scale, and finally a micro-scale assessment. The outcomes of the assessment in the form of GIS-based maps are able to
discriminate between the numerous levels of vulnerability, the several levels of impact severity towards existing structures,
property and land use within the study area. Most essentially, the maps could help planners to establish a zoning pattern for
potential coastline development. The final result of the study indicates that the GIS is the brilliantly best solution for coastal
management in Malaysia with the proposed methodology can concurrently satisfy all relative parameters in vulnerability and
erosion based on their impact. Thus, a system that can manage these problems has been developed.
Analytical study on coastal zone management in India: A case study of Odisha
Ashutosh Mohanty
Mongolia International University, Mongolia
Presently in India, the coastal policy and program already proposed to having well defined zones and coherent management
units (planning and regulation zone), which subsequently become the dominant part of the coastal management processes.
Most CZM projects around the world use arbitrary land-ward and sea-ward boundaries from physical reference as unit of
management. Others also use administrative boundary for delineation of coastal zone thinking that impact coming from
outside the area. In case of India, coastal zone are defined as coastal stretch of 500 m from high tide line (HTL) for land-ward
boundary and low tide line (LTL) as the sea-ward boundary. The super cyclone 1999 was the grim reminder, how the coastal
population (around10,000 died) of Orissa ultimately pay the price for unscientific arbitary way of demarcating coastal zone by
policy makers. Hence the correct way to delineate coastal zone management unit should be based on development of robust
criteria which are the representative of coastal natural system. In this paper, approaches, methodologies, criteria derived from
coastal natural system, their justifications and analyses supporting their delineation are described. The criteria considered
for land-ward delimitation of coastal zone of Orissa are 20 m contour line above mean sea level, areas of unconsolidated
sediments, geomorphic division, tidal effects, block boundary (Administrative boundary) and for sea ward delimitation 100
meters bathymetry are used. Further coherent management units for land-ward are delineated bases on geomorphic units. The
sea-ward delineation should be notified by official Gazetee of India for various management purposes. The resulting coherent
management unit can be a support infrastructure of data base framework to monitor coastal ecosystem.