Coastal Wiki

The Coastal Wiki - short name for Coastal and Marine Wikipedia - is an Internet encyclopaedia providing up-to-date high quality information for coastal professionals, which is continuously improved, complemented and updated by expert users. It is a searchable website that allows visitors to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change available articles. It is the product of collaborative writing by authors who can add new articles or improve and update existing articles. Articles of typically 2-3 pages are structured according to different layers of specialisation with links to related articles to provide more information. The most detailed information is contained in external literature references and specialised external websites, which can be linked using the CoastWeb technology. Coastal Wiki includes a climate change section with information about: (i) scientific report and research, (ii) policy framework and responses, (iii) specific issues (i.e. climate change and anoxic water, climate change and ecosystem and species shifts, climate changes and other human uses and impacts: assessment and management responses, (iv) coastal and beach management and sustainable tourism, (v) Regional Seas and case studies.