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The Compendium for Coast and Sea is an integrated knowledge document on the socio-economic, environmental and institutional aspects of the Coast and Sea in Flanders and Belgium.

The Compendium aggregates disperse information and data from Flemish and Belgian marine and maritime research.

The integrated and multidisciplinary character of the Compendium aims to increase the communication within the broad network of marine scientists and experts who are professionally involved with the coast and the sea. Furthermore, it increases the visibility and accessibility of marine research.

The Compendium for Coast and Sea consists of:

• An overview of the marine scientific landscape (Chapter 1)
• A summary of the knowledge on different user functions of the coast and sea as well as integrated themes, such as Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Marine Spatial Planning and the Scheldt Estuary (Chapter 2);
• A non-exhaustive overview of relevant regulations and policy instruments and an elaboration on the marine science-policy interface (Chapter 3)