Innovation by design
Subtitle: improving learning networks in coastal management
By: the H. John Heinz III Center for Science Economics and the Environment.
Contributors: H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment.
Publisher: Heinz Center
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Coastal zone management -- Study and teaching.; Coastal zone management -- Evaluation.; Ecological assessment (Biology); Coastal ecology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120).
Table of contents: value: Summary:  How Coastal Managers learn today; value: Learning networks and coastal management; value: Technological change and coastal management; value: Recommendations; value: Introduction: Impetus for and scope of the study; value: Study methods; value: - Innovation and information sharing today: Coastal environmental activism; value: The private sector and coastal management; value: What drives change in coastal management practice?; value: Where do coastal managers go for ideas and information?; value: How do innovations spread?; value: Future information sharing; value: Overcoming barriers and constraints; value: Conclusions and recommendations; value: Learning from learning networks: Shaping coastal management networks; value: Learning in networks; value: Implications for coastal management; value: Conclusions and recommendations; value: The Promise and limits of technology: The Internet and the World Wide Web; value: Geographic Information Systems; value: New sensor's technologies; value: Technology's influence on coastal management practice; value: Conclusions and recommendations.