## 4 Discussion
Additionally, the WebGIS developed by the BESS project is a particularly useful tool to allow a wider user audience to better appreciate pocket beaches not just visually but also in terms of their functioning and overall complexity; the WebGIS system presents technical data in a manner that will, however, allow both expert and non-expert use, facilitating different levels of manipulation and understanding. The raising of such awareness in the general public has been shown to initiate a process that transforms their initial curiosity into a role of controller and stimulus/driver. On a wider scope, not limited to the PBs, the utility of such a system as WebGIS is much greater. The lack of interest that is often demonstrated on public items may be countered by increasing interaction with such amenities. The BESS project describes 134 PBs as a territorial database, the evolution of which will hence forth become more visible through the developed website and, in particular, a remote surveillance system; this will allow public monitoring of the evolution of these systems, not only in the territorial sense, but also in terms of the actions taken by local politicians and stakeholders. The results demonstrate that through the development of the BESS WebGIS, (dedicated only to PBs), it is possible to clearly describe all the geometric and morphological characteristics supported by geological, sedimentological, and bathymetric data. This simple and immediate online geo-database allows a variety of users to access the platform to view and draw as much information as possible. Unlike Desktop GIS, the use of which is limited to a personal computer that contains all the data of a specific project, a WebGIS is accessible remotely via a server, with no restrictions on the place or number of users who access it. WebGIS has the advantage of combining the potential of GIS with the usefulness of the Internet in showing interactive maps and spatial data, as well as any subsequent updates; this clearly makes WebGIS the cheapest and easiest way to distribute geospatial data. The results highlighted how simple and immediate it can be to view the results of related field campaigns once uploaded to a WebGIS platform. The numerous examples listed demonstrate the effectiveness of WebGIS in comparing the various levels present, which helps to better understand its scientific value and to encourage research in this field. While the knowledge of dynamic evolution of a given layer describes the temporal trend, it is when different types of data are crossed that the potential of the WebGIS grows and multiplies the research ideas. While the BESS WebGIS is undoubtedly useful for those involved in research in this field, its usefulness can be extended to tourism, civil protection, and land-use purposes. Additionally, the BESS WebGIS portal allows:  
1. The creation of a management model extended to a sufficiently large area. 2. Ensuring that planning is functional to the defense of the natural asset and its conscious and sustainable use. 3. Making the model implementable continuously, wherever possible involving local administrations, and available to public and private users, using state of the art technologies. Through the developed WebGIS it will be possible to create a management system for these specific territorial niches, based on an active monitoring plan, at low cost, and with a high technological component. This monitoring-management model is in line with the scenarios of future management plans, which will provide for a detailed mapping of the environments concerned, so that protection systems can be created, not necessarily those that are structural, but rather systems based on good continuous management practice exploiting the intrinsic resilience of the system rather than weakening it. The challenge lies precisely in identifying the coastal management systems that make it possible to enhance the intrinsic characteristics of resilience of the beaches.