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INTERCOAST
The International Research Training Group INTERCOAST – ‘Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf-Sea Research’ has investigated questions of societal relevance relating to the coastal and shelf regions of the Bay of Plenty-Coromandel in New Zealand and of the North Sea in Germany.
The research programme focused on coasts and shelves in both areas, as they have similar coastal problems, despite their wide geographic location disparity. Both coastal and shelf zones have much in common, including existing and expanding settlement, intensifying harbour development and ship traffic, coastal land use conversion for housing and industry, fisheries and aquaculture industries, tourism and, particularly important for the future – energy production from the marine realm and wind parks. These activities and their impacts necessitate environmental intervention: dredging for shipping channels and wharves, land reclamation, and infrastructure development for homes, factories, and population mobility, sewage treatment, etc. Overriding such intensifying development, global change exerts strong impacts on both the German North Sea and the Bay of Plenty regions. In both areas this rapid population increase, commercial development, and recreational usage require long-term and careful planning, paying special attention to the principles of sustainable and precautionary, environmentally sound, and conservation-oriented economic practices.
This training group has educated young, highly motivated, interdisciplinary qualified and internationally visible scientists in the fields of Marine Geosciences, Marine Biology, Social sciences and Law.
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2009 – 2018 |
Funding: |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
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Scientists involved |
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PhD Students |
Three cohorts of PhD Students participated in the project (click for details) |