03100naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000110006024501300007126000090020152024340021065300160264465300080266065300090266865300100267765300210268777302100270810801932011-09-09       2011    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aEpagri  aThe use of Public Participation GIS PPGIS to implement the Mariculture Development Local Plans PLDM in Santa Catarina Brazil.  c2011  aIn 2005, the Brazilian Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA) launched the National Program for the Development of Mariculture. The objective was to order the activity and promote its expansion through Local Plans of Mariculture Development (PLDM). These plans defined, conceptually, the mapping units of aquaculture as the main of these called ?aquaculture parks?, which are priority areas for mariculture activities. It was the country's first initiative in implementing a public policy specifically targeted at this sector. The first state to put this policy into practice was Santa Catarina, which needed to develop its own methodology in order to meet the guidelines imposed by legislation. One requirement was the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assist in the mariculture site selection. This process should be participatory and integrated with other coastal management policies. This created an immediate research demand in order to indicate the best applications, based on the environmental, social, economic and political realities for Santa Catarina. A Geographic Information System for Public Participation (PPGIS) methodology was developed and applied. Three workshops were held with aquaculture experts (researchers, professors, producers, and technicians). The first one aimed to identify the descriptors, factors and constrains, and to build the model to evaluate the coastal zone potential; the second one was to evaluate the results and to propose adjustments for the model; and the last one to validate the methodology. The results were used at 28 public meetings with multi-sectoral participation, to delimit the aquaculture parks, developing Santa Catarina?s PLDM, and to integrate it with the Coastal Management Plan (GERCO-SC). One hundred and fifty-nine aquaculture parks were proposed, which totaled 2,095.8 hectares. If fully approved by the MPA, they will represent an increase of 40% compared to the area occupied in 2005. The lack of systematic water quality data was one of the main technical difficulties encountered to implement the GIS in accordance with the methodological approaches found in the bibliography. It was necessary to use factors that indirectly represent their behavior as hydrodynamic models and sedimentological data. The main operational difficulty was the late integration between policies for aquaculture and coastal management in the participatory process.  aAquaculture  aGIS  aPLDM  aPPGIS  aSpatial Analysis  tIn: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN GIS/SPATIAL ANALYSISIN FISHERY AND AQUATIC SCIENCES, 5., 2011, Wellington. Programs and Abstract Proceedings... Wellington: International Fishery GIS Society, 2011. p. 39-39.