Training Workshop on Information Management Methodologies, Tools and Best Practices

October 27-31st, 2003 - Trinidad and Tobago
 

 

FINAL REPORT

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

General Issues:

  1. Economic Issues in Decision Making - Marlene Attzs and Sharon Hutchinson, SEDU/UWI

  2. Information Management for Social Aspects of Sustainable Development - Janice Cumberbatch, SALISES/UWI

  3. Issues Relating to Coastal Zone Management for Caribbean SIDS - Marcia Creary, UWICED

  4. Issues Relating to Environmental Data for SIDS

     

    1. Elements for the Development of Environmental Variables, Indicators and Indices - Edgar Gutierrez, Development Observatory at the University of Costa Rica

    2. Environmental Data Training Exercise - Edgar Gutierrez, Development Observatory at the University of Costa Rica

    3. General Instructions on the "GEO_SIEAN" Package - Edgar Gutierrez, Development Observatory at the University of Costa Rica

     

  5. Sustainable Development Statistics, Indicators, and Decision-making - Reena Shah, UNDESA
     

Thematic Issues

  1. CDERA and the Integrated Decision-making Support System (IDSS) - Donovan Gentles, CDERA

  2. Climate Change and the Caribbean: The Case and the Responses - Ian King, CPACC

  3. The Coastal Resource Information System: An Approach to the Development of a Decision Support System - Ian King, CPACC

  4. Land Use Planning Introduction

  1. Presentation on Managing Information for Decision-making in Land Use Planning - Overview of Concerns Relating to Sustainable Land Use Planning and Agriculture (SIDS) - Glynis Ford, FAO

  2. Presentation on Managing Information for Decision-making in Land Use Planning - Automated Land Information System (ALES) - Glynis Ford, FAO

  3. Presentation on Managing Information for Decision-making in Land Use Planning - Conducting Land Evaluation and Importing ALES Files into ARCGIS - Glynis Ford, FAO

  4. ALES-ARCGIS Hands-on Exercise - Glynis Ford, FAO

  1. GIS Applied to Land Use Planning of Coastal Environments (includes Common GIS Commands Guide) - Edgar Gutierrez, Development Observatory at the University of Costa Rica

  2. From Measurement to Management - Indicators of Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caribbean and the CTO MIST - Gail Clarke, CTO
     

 

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