Coastal zone management focusing on coastal tourism in a transitional period of China / Ming Gu, Poh Poh Wong.
Ocean & Coastal Management Vol 51(1) 2008: 1-24
In examining China's reform in coastal management, this paper assesses the evolution of marine activities including coastal tourism. It also looks into the present issues of coastal resource uses and how administrative agencies responded to those coastal resource issues especially as the country moves from a planned economy to a market economy, and from centralized governance to decentralized governance. This paper also proposes a management approach for coastal tourism management in the future of China.

A review on operational bioindicators for sustainable coastal management : criteria, motives and relationships / Lars Hakanson, Thorsten Blenchner.
Ocean & Coastal Management Vol 51(1) 2008: 43-72
The basic aim of this work is (1) to review, present and discuss practically useful (operational) bioindicators for sustainable coastal management, (2) to motivate the selection of the given bioindicators and (3) to illustrate that these variables can be modelled and practically applied, e.g., to detect thresholds and regime shifts. These bioindicators are meant to be used at local, regional or national levels and they should meet defined criteria for practical usefulness, e.g., they should be simple to understand and apply to managers and scientists with different educational backgrounds.

Resilience, robustness, and marine ecosystem-based management / Simon A Levin & Jane Lubchenco.
BioScience Vol 58(1) January 2008: 27-32
Marine ecosystems provide essential services to humans, yet these services have been diminished, and their future sustainability endangered, by human patterns of exploitation that threaten system robustness and resilience. The challenge for management is to increase incentives to individuals, and tighten reward loops, in ways that will strengthen the robustness and resilience of these systems and preserve their ability to provide ecosystem services for generations to come.

Ecosystems in action : lessons from marine ecology about recovery, resistance, and reversability / Stephen R. Palumbi, Karen L. McLeod & Daniel Grunbaum.
BioScience Vol 58(1) January 2008: 33-42
The study of ecosystems in action, by measuring ecosystem recovery from disturbance, resistance to alterations, and the reversibility of ecosystem changes, highlights features of natural communities that contribute to resilience.

New tools to meet new challenges : emerging technologies for managing marine ecosystems for resilience / Gretchen E. Hofmann & Steven D. Gaines.
BioScience Vol 58(1) January 2008: 43-52
The goal of this article is to highlight evolving tools, recent advances, and emerging techniques that are being used to understand natural variability in marine ecosystems.

Marine ecosystem-based management in practice : scientific and governance challenges / Mary Ruckelshaus ...[et al.]
BioScience Vol 58(1) January 2008: 53-63
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) in the ocean is a relatively new approach, and existing applications are evolving from more traditional management of portions of ecosystems. In this article, the authors summarise EBM principles that emerge from the fisheries and marine social and ecological literature. They then apply those principles to four cases in which large parts of marine ecosystems are being managed, and ask how including additional components of an EBM approach might improve the prospects for those ecosystems.