Indicators for characterisation and management of coastal zones in Europe : final draft June 1997 under contract of ETC/MCE, RIKZ/LMCE : revised report 1999

This updated and revised second ETC/MCE indicator report on the use of indicators for the characterisation and management of the coastal zone adds recent insights in the set up of indicators in general. This revised report reflects on some experiences with the testing of indicators on the available international data bases executed in 1999. The conceptual relationship of indicators with models has been investigated in a separate study executed under the ETC/MCE 1997 workprogramme and was commented by the PCP's in 1998.