The American Samoa Coastal use Participatory Mapping Project was developed through a partnership between the American Samoa Government's Department of Commerce Coastal Management Program (ASCMP), Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR), NOAA's Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO), NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) and NOAA's Coastal Services Center - Pacific Regeion (PSC). The project was designed to enhance ocean management by gathering geospatial data on human uses of the nearshore ocean environment in the Fagaloa region of the island of Tutuial in American Samoa. The data were collected from regional ocean experts and users through participatory GIS methods.

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) is increasingly used in coastal settings to inform natural resource management and spatial planning. Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES), a PPGIS tool that systematizes the mapping and modeling of social values and cultural ecosystem services, is promising for use in coastal settings but has seen relatively limited applications relative to other PPGIS approaches; it has also to our knowledge not yet been applied in a barrier island setting. In this study, we surveyed two visitor groups and residents living near Cape Lookout National Seashore (North Carolina, USA) to understand social values they hold for the area in the context of the park’s management needs. We developed social-value models to evaluate differences between three user groups and evaluate how respondents’ experiences, attitudes, and recreational activities influence the locations they value and their most strongly held value types, which included aesthetic, recreation, biodiversity, future, therapeutic, and historic values. We found that accessibility, user types and the seasonality of major recreational activities, and the linear configuration of the barrier island system at Cape Lookout are important influences on the social values held by visitors and residents. The modeling approaches provide a variety of information relevant to management at Cape Lookout and can inform the design of future PPGIS studies in coastal and marine settings.

Enclosed coastal seas and wetlands are areas of high ecological value with singular fauna and flora, but several cases of environmental catastrophes in recent decades can easily be referenced in the international literature. The management of these natural territories is complex in developed countries since they are usually subjected to intense human activity with a varied catalog of activities and anthropizing features that alter the balance of the ecosystem. In this article, the concept of the Socio-Ecological System (SES) to diagnose and achieve a sustainable cohabitation between human anthropization and the natural values based on the tool of GIS participatory mapping is proposed as an innovative approach for the management and recovery of these complex areas. The article develops a comprehensive general methodology of spatial GIS diagnosis, planning, and co-management implementation between public and private stakeholders combined with economic tools such as the Willingness to Pay (WTP) and the Cost Transfer Sector (CTS). This innovative approach is applied to the Mar Menor lagoon, which is an international and successful case study of environmental recovery on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The coastal lagoon suffered an unprecedented eutrophication crisis in 2015, but it managed to recover in the summer of 2018 without the need to implement major structural measures. In this case study, several solutions to redress the current impacts will be developed through a participatory process based on GIS mapping. Lastly, the discussion reflects the concept of self-resilience of an ecosystem based on the unexpected positive turn of the environmental crisis in the lagoon ending.

The Mar Menor, a coastal lagoon in south-eastern Spain of high environmental value and protected by the Natura 2000 network, suffered an intense phenomenon of eutrophication in 2015. This phenomenon generated a change of colour and important increase in the turbidity of its waters, which caused the loss of 85% of its marine vegetal cover in 2016 and great social alarm. The various regulations and tools of environmental protection that exist have not worked properly to avoid the anthropization of this enclosed coastal sea, which is subjected to a varied catalogue of human activities that. encompass mass tourism, agriculture, mining, fishing or the important presence of ports and infrastructures, among others. In this context, the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the Mar Menor is put in place as an innovative model of integrated strategy for coastal zone management (ICZM) to overcome the shortcomings of previous management systems.This paper analyzes the process to implement this new model of comprehensive governance in the Mar Menor. The work is based on the use of participatory mechanisms for collaboration with stakeholders, in order to reach an integrated diagnosis and propose comprehensive solutions that involve all actors related to the current situation. The model performs the socio-ecological system of the Mar Menor (SESMM) that physically surpasses the geographic surface of the lagoon managed by traditional environmental tools. In this way, four different areas of influence of the lagoon are diagnosed and integrated into a sectoral action plan with the help of GIS tools in a process called "GIS participatory mapping". The analysis carried out shows how the origin of the lagoon's main problems often lie many kilometres away from the lagoon itself and thus the situation needs to be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective to find effective solutions. The results will help us set up a new management framework to achieve the recovery of the lagoon and sustainable future cohabitation among the existing activities. The approach taken (which can be easily exported to other coastal areas with complex environmental problems associated with diffuse anthropization) shows the importance of proposing analysis methodologies that are capable of involving all stakeholders to achieve sustainable solutions over time.

Data Series: Labour force participation rate for persons aged 15-24, by sex Indicator: I.3 - Labour force participation rate for persons aged 15-24 and 15 and older, by sex Source year: 2024 This dataset is part of the Minimum Gender Dataset compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division. Domain: Economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources

Data within this layer was created through two different mapping effort workshops: 1) the Human Uses Mapping Workshops, held in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), in June, 2014, and 2) the Human Uses Mapping Workshops, held in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), in April, 2015. A Coastal Use Mapping Project is designed to collect information on how a community is using a coastal or marine area. The data helps resource managers understand both the range and intensity of key activities as well as planners to identify and reduce conflicts among human uses, and between human uses and the environment. Representatives (see Credits) from different marine sectors (recreation, watersports, marina, charter boating, SCUBA diving, and fishing industries) as well as NGOs and territorial and federal governmental partners met to provide first-hand information on the spatial and temporal distribution of human use activities around the USVI. This information was captured using the method of “participatory mapping.” Participatory mapping provides participants a map on which to indicate the location of their human use activities, while moderators generate representative spatial data files in real time. Both workshops used E-Beam™ technology to aid the participatory mapping method. This work represents an ongoing effort by TNC, USVI DPNR, NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), and members of the Caribbean Regional Ocean Partnership (CROP) to update human use data throughout USVI in support of resource managers.

The Aurora Fire Department's Fire Prevention Bureau and Firefighters assigned to the Fire Stations actively engage in community education and training to promote safety. Through participation in various events and gatherings across the City of Aurora, the bureau reaches thousands of citizens and visitors annually. Activities include:

 School programs and exit drills
 Fire station tours
 Career fairs and neighborhood events
 Fire extinguisher training
 Home safety awareness programs

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A Coastal Use Mapping Project is designed to collect information on how a community is using a coastal or marine area. The data helps resource managers understand both the range and intensity of key activities. These data were created as part of the Human Uses Mapping Workshops, held in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), in April, 2015. Representatives (see Credits) from different marine sectors (recreation, watersports, marina, charter boating, SCUBA diving, and fishing industries) as well as NGOs and territorial and federal governmental partners met to provide first-hand information on the spatial and temporal distribution of human use activities in the nearshore of St. Croix, USVI with a particular focus in the St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP). This information was captured using the method of “participatory mapping.” Participatory mapping provides participants a map on which to indicate the location of their human use activities, while moderators generate representative spatial data files in real time. E-Beam™ technology was used to aid the participatory mapping method. This work represents an ongoing effort by TNC, USVI DPNR, and NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) to update human use data throughout USVI in support of resource managers. This project was conducted by The Nature Conservancy with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (NOAA CRCP) through Cooperative Agreement #NA13NOS4820145. Through this Partnership, TNC and NOAA work on site level management and conservation strategies for the STXEEMP. The STXEEMP management and staff supported the project by identifying stakeholders, creating outreach materials and advertising the event.

Data within this layer was created through two different mapping effort workshops: 1) the Human Uses Mapping Workshops, held in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), in June, 2014, and 2) the Human Uses Mapping Workshops, held in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), in April, 2015. A Coastal Use Mapping Project is designed to collect information on how a community is using a coastal or marine area. The data helps resource managers understand both the range and intensity of key activities as well as planners to identify and reduce conflicts among human uses, and between human uses and the environment. Representatives (see Credits) from different marine sectors (recreation, watersports, marina, charter boating, SCUBA diving, and fishing industries) as well as NGOs and territorial and federal governmental partners met to provide first-hand information on the spatial and temporal distribution of human use activities around the USVI. This information was captured using the method of “participatory mapping.” Participatory mapping provides participants a map on which to indicate the location of their human use activities, while moderators generate representative spatial data files in real time. Both workshops used E-Beam™ technology to aid the participatory mapping method. This work represents an ongoing effort by TNC, USVI DPNR, NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), and members of the Caribbean Regional Ocean Partnership (CROP) to update human use data throughout USVI in support of resource managers.