A five-day training programme on geomatics for coastal zone management began at the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) with a call for co-ordination among various stakeholders for management of coastal areas.
The training programme is being jointly organised by Kufos and the Nansen Environmental Research Centre-India (NERCI) with technical support from Integrated Coastal and Marine Area Management (ICMAM) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Kufos Pro Vice Chancellor K. Padmakumar, who inaugurated the programme, said coordinated efforts of fishermen, fishery experts, administrators, realtors and builders, entrepreneurs, the water authority and the pollution control board were essential for effective coastal zone management. He said unscientific construction works would lead to environmental disorder in coastal areas. He pointed out that geomatics, a technology of geographic information, could be used for assessing the coastal morphology in the past and present to find out the accretion and erosion of the coastal areas.
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Registrar V.M. Victor George presided over the inauguration. S.K. Dash, a scientist at ICMAM, N.R. Menon, Kamalakshan Kokkal, joint director of KSCSTE, S. Suresh Kumar and Ajith Joseph spoke on the occasion, said a press release here.
The training programme is being jointly organised by Kufos and the NERCI