PEMSEA's Experience in the Use of Data/Information in ICM

PUBLICATION DATE:

Sunday, February 01, 2009

PUBLICATION TYPE:

Reports

STATUS:

Only Available Online

DESCRIPTION:

The Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) is a multisectoral regional partnership that promotes the application of integrated coastal management (ICM) for the sustainable development of marine and coastal areas in the East Asian Seas (EAS) Region. PEMSEA applies a number of tools and procedures as part of the ICM program development and implementation cycle. Two of these tools, namely the integrated information management system (IIMS) and the State of the Coasts (SOC) reporting system have been developed in order to facilitate the consolidation and integration of data/information on the physical, geographic, social, economic and environmental aspects of the ICM site. The IIMS and SOC strengthen marine and coastal area, and river basin management, as seen in the two examples of Manila Bay and Batangas Province. The comprehensive coverage and data sets contained in the IIMS allow ICM managers to generate a number of outputs that are vital to ICM program development and implementation. The SOC report consolidates data and evaluates it against selected indicators, providing a report card on trends in the area with respect to marine and coastal governance and environmental management programs.