Obiettivo Large areas of the humid tropics are being transformed by deforestation and agricultura l expansion, which ultimate impact on terrestrial and coastal ecosystems is unknown. The countries in Southeast Asia support, largely as a consequence of the exceedingly high deforestation rates they are experiencing, the largest sediment delivery in the planet (14000 tons sediments per square kilometer of land per year), about 10-100 fold higher than anywhere else. As a consequence, siltation and associated damage to coastal ecosystems is resulting on the wide-spread decline of important coastal resources (e.g. corals, seagrass meadows, associated fish, etc.). Steps has been provided to reduce siltation and protect coastal ecosystems, but legislation for the sustainable development of coastal resources is hindered by lack of adequate scientific knowledge to allow the prediction of the response of coastal ecosystems to different siltation rates. The goal of this project is to provide the scientific basis needed to regulate the sustainable development of land and coastal resources in Southeast Asia by building dose-response models that allow prediction of the response of coastal ecosystems to different siltation rates. This goal will be achieved through the analysis of coastal zones along a gradation of contrasting land use and sediment delivery, to examine the short-term and long-term (decadal) response of the ecosystem. The empirical basis needed to model these relationships will be obtained through the use of Rapid Assesment Techniques to asses siltation rates and component response along a gradient of coastal ecosystems. These data will allow the development of empirical models that will be validated experimentally, to develop a general model of the response of coastal ecosystem to siltation. The project will also evaluate the possibility of deriving optical models that allow calculation of suspended sediments, and ecosystem response, from remotely sensed optical properties of the coastal zone. The goal of the project targets a very important problem, targetted as priority in the developmental policy of the countries in the area, and one that affects most developping coastal countries in the tropics. Hence, training of local scientists to address this problem will contribute to the development of an in-house capacity to study one of the major environmental problems generated by non-sustaible development. Campo scientifico natural sciencesbiological sciencesmarine biologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanetsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemscoastal ecosystems Programma(i) FP3-STD 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the life sciences and technologies for developing countries, 1990-1994 Argomento(i) Data not available Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinatore Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientòficas Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo S/N,Camino de Sta. Barbara 17300 Blanes Spagna Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (4) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Paesi Bassi Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 95,Oude Delft 2601 DA Delft Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Københavns Universitet Danimarca Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 49-51,Helsingoersgade 3400 Hillerød Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY Thailandia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Hat Yai Campus 90112 HATYAI / SONGKHLA Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato University of the Philippines, Diliman Filippine Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 1101 Quezon City Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato