Brenner Jorge, Jimenez José A, Sardá Rafael
Laboratori d'Enginyeria Marítima, ETSECCPB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3, Mòdul D-1, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
Environ Manage. 2006 Dec;38(6):993-1005. doi: 10.1007/s00267-005-0210-6. Epub 2006 Sep 21.
Geographical areas constitute the basic implementation locus for integrated coastal zone management strategies and activities. Because the definition of territorial planning objectives may be affected by socioeconomic and environmental characteristics, one of the main steps in the process involves dividing the coast into homogeneous environmental management units (HEMUs). This article presents a general and simple method for regionalizing the landside of a coastal zone into HEMUs and illustrates it through application to the Catalan coast. Socioeconomic and natural (biophysical) subsystems were selected as the most appropriate dimensions of the regionalization process. Dimensions were described using 11 spatial themes, which were managed in a geographic information system environment that proved to be an adequate tool for the purpose. A final coastal zone map of four classes of HEMUs connected to local administrative units was obtained, and because it reflects the current natural and socioeconomic dynamics, it can be considered as an initial step in the planning process for the Catalan coast. Although the proposed method was developed based on the characteristics of the Catalan coast, it is general enough to be adapted and applied to most developed or developing coastal areas.
地理区域是沿海地区综合管理战略和活动的基本实施场所。由于领土规划目标的定义可能会受到社会经济和环境特征的影响，该过程的主要步骤之一是将海岸划分为同质环境管理单元（HEMU）。本文提出了一种将沿海地区陆侧划分为HEMU的通用且简单的方法，并通过应用于加泰罗尼亚海岸进行了说明。社会经济和自然（生物物理）子系统被选为区域化过程最合适的维度。维度通过11个空间主题进行描述，这些主题在地理信息系统环境中进行管理，事实证明该环境是实现此目的的合适工具。最终获得了一张与当地行政单位相连的四类HEMU的沿海地区地图，由于它反映了当前的自然和社会经济动态，因此可被视为加泰罗尼亚海岸规划过程的第一步。尽管所提出的方法是基于加泰罗尼亚海岸的特征开发的，但它具有足够的通用性，能够进行调整并应用于大多数发达或发展中沿海地区。
