The coastal zone management plan of Santa Maria as a chance for fossiliferous o...

• Author(s): Calado, Helena ; Ávila, Sérgio P. ; Madeira, Patrícia
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1024
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Coastal Area; Sustainable Management; Azores Islands; Madeira Islands; Canary Islands; Human Resources; Coastal Ecosystems
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The Azores Environment and Sea Agency through its Regional Department of Land Management and Water Resources, together with the Agency of Land Management of the Autonomous Government of The Canary Islands and the Regional Cabinet of Transport and Social Equipment of the Autonomous Government of Madeira carry on the project “Sustainable Management of the Social, Economic and Ecological Development of the coastal areas of Macaronesia within the community initiative INTERREG III B 2000-2006,Açores-Madeira-Canary Islands, which has been designated as LITOSOST. The LITOSOST project aims at achieving land management of a coastal area which focuses on reducing the urban and infra-structural pressure and regenerating, recovering and converting it for public fruition (UNESCO, 1997; Mota et al.,2004; DROTRH/SRAM, 2006; MAOTDR, 2006). The general goal of the project consists on stimulating practices to the sustainable management of the coastal areas of the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. As specific objectives, the following stand out: to strengthen the cooperation between the Macaronesia authorities; to identify the problems and the common potential of the coastal areas of the islands; to train human resources: Management and Preservation of Resources; to contribute for the improvement of the state of the coastal ecosystems of the EU islands.