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The GCRMN - coordinating coral reef monitoring efforts for effective management
Type: Journal Article
The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) is an operational unit of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), established in 1995 and maintained by the Australian Institute of Marine Science(AIMS). The main ...
A viability analysis for a bio-economic model
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a simple dynamic model dealing with the management of a marine renewable resource. But instead of studying the ecological and economic interactions in terms of equilibrium or optimal control, we pay ...
Biodiversity of estuarine fish faunas in West Africa
Type: Journal Article
In West Africa (between Ivory Coast and Sénégal), estuarine environments vary from lagoons to high discharge rivers to inverse hypersaline estuaries. This results in a high diversity of estuarine fish species, with an ...
Community-based marine protected areas in the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
This paper discusses the status, direction and management issues in the marine protected areas (MPAs) of the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, Philippines. The MPAs in the study area have increased through the years. Many of them were ...
Fishing in, fishing out: transboundary issues and the territorialization of blue space
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we consider transboundary access to and appropriation of resources as a part of the territorialization of space by the state. This implies that environmental concerns about transboundary resource access are ...
Combining top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches of land use/ cover change to support public policies: application to sustainable management of natural resources in northern Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Over recent years, the scientific community has developed different modelling methodologies of land use/cover change (LUCC) depending on their intended use, and also on the scale of investigation, disciplinary background ...
The cost of action: CRM investment in the Philippines
Type: Journal Article
Knowing the cost of investment in coastal resources management (CRM) is important especially in understanding the cost of undertaking one and ascertaining whether the outcomes are worth the money spent. In the Philippines, ...
Management of wetland resources in the lower Mekong Basin: issues and future directions
Type: Journal Article
The Lower Mekong Basin has extensive wetlands and these are being threatened by numerous problems. Most of these problems are interdependent and interact with one another. The lack of an appropriate definition of wetlands ...
Addressing the coral reef crisis in developing countries.
Type: Journal Article
Coral reefs, the storehouses of much of the world’s marine biodiversity, and the source of many socioeconomic benefits, are in decline worldwide. The causes of the ‘coral reef crisis’ are complex but there is general ...
Developing technologies for restocking sandfish: Update on the WorldFish-SPC project in New Caledonia.
Type: Journal Article
The WorldFish Center project to develop strategies for restocking sea cucumbers is now in its fourth year. Its main purpose is to develop optimal release strategies for the restocking of sandfish (Holothuria scabra). ...