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Seagrass habitats provide a range of goods and benefits to coastal communities by supporting ecosystem functioning, food provisioning, and cultural values. However, they are at risk worldwide from anthropogenic activities, climate change impacts and limited resources, which hamper efforts to protect them. Effective conservation planning requires pr...
Urban ecosystem service (UES) is becoming an influential concept to guide the planning, design, and management of urban landscapes towards urban sustainability. However, its use is hindered by definitional ambiguity, and the conceptual bases underpinning its application remain weak. This is exemplified by two different but equally valid interpretat...
Shipping plays a crucial role in supporting global trade, including the transport of products from the aquaculture industry. However, ships may also unintentionally transport invasive species and pathogens in their ballast water which pose biosecurity risks for aquaculture. The Ballast Water Management Convention was developed to manage the biosecu...
Same Risk Area refers to an area-based approach for the risk assessment of aquatic invasive species that considers the extent of natural dispersal. It is a new addition to the Guidelines on Risk Assessment (G7) under the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments. The method outlined here to define...
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest-growing food-production sector and a crucial contributor to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. As a group of scientists, ocean-policy experts, aquaculture professionals and technical consultants from international organizations, we argue that, despite recent legislation, fish farms may still be at...
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (The Ballast Water Management Convention or BWMC) (IMO, 2004) and its associated guidelines aim to reduce the impact of potentially harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens by preventing their spread from one region to another, by establishing standards...
This chapter examines the potential relationship between ecosystem services provided by coastal ecosystems and the design and management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). While all coastal and marine habitats provide a range of ecosystem services, the implementation and management of an MPA may result in improvements in the quality or supply of an...
This chapter provides a review of marine social and economic data and tools that may facilitate the incorporation of social and economic data into decision-making for sustainable coastal management. The results show that there is good information on provisioning services and a range of methods, but social information is often lacking or not at the...
The concepts of ecosystem services and human welfare provide strong integrative frameworks that can
be used to inform marine policy and management decisions that support sustainable development.
A theoretical framework has been developed and applied to create a model for UK seas to measure
changes in final ecosystem services, in terms of human welf...
This paper presents an analysis of the marine ecosystem services delivered by the broad-scale habitats (EUNIS Level 3) that will be included in England's new Marine Protected Area (MPA) network developed under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009). The assessment of ecosystem services was undertaken through a systematic literature review to iden...
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This paper describes the development of a mathematical model for predicting the recovery of the seabed and the associated ecological communities after marine aggregate dredging. The sediment dynamic model is based on a rule-based cellular automata technique rather than conventional process-based methods, and has been developed from an earlier model...
Summary • We investigated the effects of changes in taxonomic resolution on analyses of patterns of multivariate variation at different spatial scales for the highly diverse fauna inhabiting holdfasts of the kelp Ecklonia radiata. • Multivariate analyses were performed using several transformations to examine differences in spatial patterns of vari...
Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) is a burrowing coastal and estuarine goby from temperate areas of Australia. One specimen was captured from the Whangateau Harbour, north‐eastern New Zealand, on 1 April 1998, constituting the first record of this species from New Zealand. Further intensive beach seining at Pollen Island, within the Waitemata Harb...
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Natural Capital Singapore is a new research project to assess the current status and health of Singapore’s major ecosystems, and quantify their economic and societal value. This analysis will provide the first national-scale assessment of Singapore's natural capital, and the first assessment for a tropical, heavily urbanised country. The project will also predict potential future changes in natural capital, and identify trade-offs and synergies with future urban development.
A case study applying the Same Risk Area risk assessment concept to the Kattegat and Øresund marine territory between Denmark and Sweden. SRA is a concept proposed for facilitating the provision of exemptions to the ballast water convention and its requirement for treating ballast water to reduce the risk of introducing marine invasive species to the marine environment. Funded by A/S D/S Orients Fond, Stena Line Group, Danish Ferries and Danish Environmental Agency.
Reviewed the legislation in place for managing dredged material. policies from 16 countries around the world were reviewed for best practice.
