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The forgotten service: food as an ecosystem service from estuarine and coastal zones
Type: Book Chapter
In this chapter, we review in detail the existing body of literature and knowledge related to the provision of food in estuaries and coastal zones. Both aquatic and terrestrial commodities are considered. The chapter ...
Fisheries management and governance challenges in a climate change
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter outlines the causes and consequences of climate change and summarise future projections for ocean temperature rise, coral bleaching events and ocean acidification, and the associated uncertainties. This review ...
Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems
Type: Journal Article
Many human populations are dependent on marine ecosystems for a range of benefits, but we understand little about where and to what degree people rely on these ecosystem services. We created a new conceptual model to map ...
The Vital Roles of Blue Foods in the Global Food System
Type: Brief
Blue foods – fish, invertebrates, algae and aquatic plants captured or cultured in freshwater and marine ecosystems – play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the ...
Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries: the QUEST_Fish framework
Type: Book Chapter
Climate change is accelerating and is already affecting the marine environment. Estimating the effects of climate change on the production of fish resources, and their dependent societies, is complex because of: difficulties ...
Social equity and benefits as the nexus of a transformative Blue Economy: A sectoral review of implications
Type: Journal Article
The term ‘Blue Economy’ is increasingly used in various marine sectors and development frameworks. For it to be a truly useful approach, however, we argue that social benefits and equity must be explicitly prioritized ...
Interactions between changes in marine ecosystems and human communities
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter discusses how small-scale fisheries dependent human communities are interactive with marine ecosystems. It has shown how changes in the marine ecosystems can impact human fishing communities, and also how the ...
Strengthening governance across scales in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Working Paper
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders operating from local to national and regional scales over rights to access and use natural resources—land, water, ...
Food security and the coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
The Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity. Over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods. Hundreds of millions ...