Maria Merino

• University of Cantabria

Oman is located in an area of high seismicity, facing the Makran Subduction Zone, which is the major source of earthquakes in the eastern border of the Arabian plate. These earthquakes, as evidenced by several past events, may trigger a tsunami event. The aim of this work is to minimize the consequences that tsunami events may cause in coastal comm...

Oman is located in an area of high seismicity, facing the Makran Subduction Zone, which is the major source of earthquakes in the eastern border of the Arabian plate. These earthquakes, as evidenced by several past events, may trigger a tsunami event. The aim of this work is to minimize the consequences that tsunami events may cause in coastal comm...

The Mediterranean coast of Egypt suffers from a number of coastal problems as unplanned urbanization, land use conflicts, environmental degradation or shoreline retreat, that will be exacerbated by climate change. The problems are multi-dimensional and multi-located, and the Egyptian government has tried to respond to these challenges by implementi...

The degree of development and operability of the indicators for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) using Descriptor 1 (D1) Biological Diversity was assessed. To this end, an overview of the relevance and degree of operability of the underlying parameters across 20 European countries was compiled by analysing national directives, legisla...

Despite the considerable effort in ICZM over several decades, effective governance of the coastal zone remains a considerable challenge in many parts of the world. This paper presents the nested governance system proposed for the Egyptian Northwest coast which has been designed to arrange and organize the state organizations, private sector corpora...