The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India established 78 Environmental Information System (ENVIS) centres in different nodes such as governmental nodes, Institutional nodes and NGO nodes to provide environmental related information to scientists, policy planners and decision-makers all over India. This article explains the efforts of ENVIS Centres in dissemination of environmental information to various aspects in general and coastal ecosystem in particular based on the user’s benefits analysis.

Keywords : Information Dissemination, ENVIS, Coastal Ecosystem, Databases