Policy Support

Data - and Information systems

• ScheldeMonitor: Flemish-Dutch knowledge- and information system for research and monitoring on the Scheldt estuary
• IMIS: information on marine sciences in Flanders: scientists and their institutional affiliation, contact addresses, projects, publications, datasets,,...
• Coastal Barometer: Sustainability Indicators for the Belgian Coastal Zone
• VLIMAR: VLIz MARine Gazetteer: on-line list of geographical terms coupled to geographic information and maps of the location
• Coastal Wiki: Internet encyclopaedia with short articles addressed to and written by coastal experts, scientifically validated information about Coast and Sea
• BWZee: Biological Valuation Map for the Belgian Continental Shelf
• DIMAS: Infomation on specific effects of chemicals on the marine environment
• MIMAC: Marine Incidents Management Cluster
• ECOTOX: Database on the most important toxical substances transported at the North Sea

Networking and Advisory structures: VLIZ is partner in

• Flemish Advisory Council 'Marine-Maritime', International Environmental Policy, Flanders Governement
• Coordination Centre on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Belgium
• Advisory platform for the Ostend Sluice dock
• Coastal Working Group of the Flemish Council on Environment and Nature (MINA-Raad)
• Steering Committee 'Flemish Bays' (Stuurgroep Vlaamse Baaien)
• Coordination Committee for Integrated Water Management Flanders
• Flanders' Maritime Cluster vzw: Board of Directors
• Management Advisory Committee of the Flemish Agency for Nature and Forests: Bay of Heyst/Zwin/West coast
• Working Group for the Intervention Plan for Oiled Birds

Publications

• Speech of the Governor of West-Flanders (October 2007) (Dutch only: Rede van de gouverneur van West-Vlaanderen, oktober 2007) West-Vlaanderen door de zee gedreven
• Environmental Report of Flanders (Dutch only): Theme Report Coast and Sea
• State of the Coast of the southern North Sea: the southern North Sea in figures and numbers
• European sustainability indicators for the coastal areas of the Netherlands
• Guidelines for the use of indicators in European coastal zones (DEDUCE project)