Title: Data consolidation for coastal management: the development of the Guyana coastal database platform

Authors: Temitope D. Timothy Oyedotun; Stephan Moonsammy; Jassarae Renn-Moonsammy; Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy; Gordon Ansel Nedd; Joy Bishop; Helene Burningham

Addresses: Department of Geography, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 10 1110, Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ' Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 10 1110, Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ' Pensa Fuori Concepts, #4 Parakeet Street, Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies ' Pensa Fuori Concepts, #4 Parakeet Street, Trincity, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies ' Department of Geography, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 10 1110, Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ' Department of Geography, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana, P.O. Box 10 1110, Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown, Guyana ' Department of Geography, University College London, North-West Wing, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Abstract: Coastal management globally requires reliable, high quality and up to date data available to all coastal stakeholders. Coastal databases have provided a platform to consolidate large volumes of data and make it accessible to the wider society. The literature has demonstrated a gap exists between developing and developed countries in terms of coastal data consolidation and the development of coastal databases as a management tool. This study presents a cost-effective coastal data consolidation platform developed for the developing country of Guyana. The data was sourced from several open access sources, national repositories and online databases. All the data acquired was consolidated into a web platform designed on the Wix website editor. The outcome of this study shows the potential of developing a cost-effective coastal data consolidation platform that can be implemented in the coastal management framework of developing countries to improve the decision-making and environmental governance of their coastlines.

Keywords: coastal database; data consolidation; online database platform; web applications.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2022.125019

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2022 Vol.22 No.2, pp.143 - 162

Received: 15 Mar 2022
Accepted: 04 Apr 2022
Published online: 22 Aug 2022 *

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