The group has a long established reputation for delivering excellent research, particularly with regard to studies on coastal management and environmental issues. Since its foundation, the research group develops an intense work of supporting to administrations and stakeholders in the study and integrated assessment of spatial problems in areas of contact or interface between society and environment: analysis and management of coastal and marine zones, socio-environmental problems linked to human activities and processes of land use change, planning and social adaptation to climate change, land and ecosystems accounting, ecosystem services, cooperation networks in regional, trans-statal and cross-border areas, spatial processes of migrations and climate change. INTERFASE has worked offering assessment at European level on: integrated management of coastal and marine zones, building indicators and producing spatial data for the sustainable development, development of methodologies of environmental analysis, analysis of socio-environmental issues and development of geo-information systems. The SGR disctinction of the research group has been renewed in , and Oh my benefits!