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The Wider Caribbean is one of the most geopolitically complex maritime regions in the world. The 44 countries and territories of this region have vast differences regarding their economy, development or vulnerability. They are often highly dependent from marine ecosystem services and marine-based economic sectors such as tourism, fisheries or marit...
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... study area, as it is considered for this work, is the sum of all geographical scopes described above. Therefore, it is the combination of three LMEs: CLME, NBSLME and GoMLME plus the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the countries in the Atlantic Ocean [see Figure 1]. The total area is almost 7 million sq. ...
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... information about the country is provided before the results of the national ocean governance assessment [see Figure 10]. This entails the application of the chapter 4 [see Table 25] and chapter 5 [see Table 26] to the case of Mexico, proving the profile of the country concerning geopolitics and regional ocean governance. ...
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... times, overlapping and competing mandates and memberships of institutions lead to ineffectiveness. The challenge is therefore to integrate governance mechanisms to improve their effectiveness and reduce duplication (Fanning et al, 2011). IMP-MED (2011) claims that a management body with a trans-sectorial and inter-disciplinary mandate needs to be established for the implementation of all initiatives [45]. ...
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