7 th GNSS Vulnerabiliies and Soluions Conference 133 THE USE OF GNSS DATA IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Lidija Runko Luttenberger 1 , Leila Luttenberger 2 1 Komunalac d.o.o. Opatija E-mail: lidija.lutenberger@komunalac-opatija.hr 2 Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka E-mail: leila.luttenberger@riteh.hr AbSTRACT. Given the wide scope of possibilities that GNSS may provide in terms of environmental protection, the authors point elaborate in particular the land use land cover (LULC) aspect in monitoring the state of the environment and for drawing up future physical plans that would safeguard the quality of living and that of the environment. Various stakeholders in the communities in vulnerable coastal karst regions or the mountains should be provided easy and non-costly access to detailed LULC data which could be processed and converted to quantiiable indicators of the degree of human intervention in the environment and its possible degradation. The availability of understandable indicators would ensure sound public participation and consultation in deciding on land use. KEy wORDS: GNSS, environmental governance, LULC, karst t