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Human health impacts of dams and reservoirs: Neglected issues in a One Health perspective
Type: Journal Article
Dams have often been constructed for hydropower, water storage and to support socio-economic development, particularly in areas of water stress. In many places, the water stored in human-made reservoirs is essential to ...
Retention of fish biodiversity in a mixed-use agroecosystem in Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries of the Mekong Basin are crucial to regional food security. They rely on seasonal monsoon rains that inundate rice fields and reconnect water bodies. Species assemblages vary over time and space, but infrastructure ...
Local ecological knowledge can support improved management of small-scale fisheries in the Bay of Bengal
Type: Journal Article
Fishers’ local ecological knowledge (LEK) can be used to reconstruct or supplement long-term trends in heavily exploited population or poorly assessed species with low biomass. We used historical memories of small-scale ...
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus
Type: Journal Article
A recent analysis of the environmental footprint of the world’s food systems found that aquatic foods, which include all fish, shellfish and seaweeds that are farmed or harvested in marine or freshwater environments, supply ...
Why human rights matter for marine conservation
Type: Journal Article
Human rights matter for marine conservation because people and nature are inextricably linked. A thriving planet cannot be one that contains widespread human suffering or stifles human potential; and a thriving humanity ...
Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health
Type: Journal Article
The diverse aquaculture sector makes important contributions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)/Agenda 2030, and can increasingly do so in the future. Its important role for food security, nutrition, ...
Diverse pathways for climate resilience in marine fishery systems
Type: Journal Article
Both the ecological and social dimensions of fisheries are being affected by climate change. As a result, policymakers, managers, scientists and fishing communities are seeking guidance on how to holistically build resilience ...
Principles for transformative ocean governance
Type: Journal Article
With a focus on oceans, we collaborated across ecological, social and legal disciplines to respond to the United Nations call for transformation in the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. We developed a set of 13 ...
A multiplexed RT‑PCR assay for nanopore whole genome sequencing of Tilapia lake virus (TiLV)
Type: Journal Article
Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a highly contagious viral pathogen that affects tilapia, a globally significant and affordable source of fish protein. To prevent the introduction and spread of TiLV and its impact, there is ...
Multistakeholder platforms for integrated landscape governance: The case of Kalomo District, Zambia
Type: Journal Article
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) that bring together a range of actors to collaboratively address land and natural resource governance issues are increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the extent to which ...