MONAE

Both have the potential to generate a huge amount of relevant, cost-effective information. Public intervention may also be important for emergency alert purposes, such as oil spills or dead dolphins, although in this case there must be a competent authority with permanent real-time response capacity. Finally, the specificity of public participation in coastal management is examined in detail, and a methodology is proposed for the design and implementation of an information system designed to deal with the two-way information flow between the management community and the public at large.