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Articles of the month - June 2008
This section contains summaries of recent articles from scientific journals related to the marine environment. |
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Coasts and Oceans
Positioning fisheries in a changing world / R. Quentin Grafton ...[et al].
Marine Policy Vol 32(4) July 2008: 630-634
Marine capture fisheries face major and complex challenges such as habitat degradation, poor economic returns, social hardships from depleted stocks, illegal fishing, and climate change among. The key factors that prevent the transition to sustainable fisheries are information failures, transition costs, use and non-use conflicts and capacity constraints. Using the experiences of fisheries successes and failures it is argued only through better governance and institutional change that encompasses the public good of the oceans and societal values will fisheries be made sustainable.
Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries / Kieran Lawton ... [et al.]
Aquatic Conservation Vol 18(3) May 2008: 309-320
Incidental mortality in fisheries is causing declines in many albatross populations around the world. To assess potential interactions with regional fisheries satellite tags were used to track black- browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) and light- mantled sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria palpebrata) breeding on Heard Island during the chick-rearing periods of 2003/04. This was the first time individuals from either population had been tracked.
Conserving Melanesia's coral reef heritage in the face of climate change / Simon J. Foale.
Historic Environment Vol 21(1) March 2008: 30-36
The author uses natural heritage to examine the nexus between Western and Melanesian ways of conceptualising and valuing coral reefs. The impacts of various pressures including rising sea temperatures are discussed, on the ecological functioning of coral reefs and their ability to deliver ecosystem services, primarily fisheries, to the people who own and depend on them.
Management of coral reefs : where we have gone wrong and what we can do about it / Peter F. Sale.
Marine Pollution Bulletin 56(5) 2008: 805-809
Globally, our current management of coral reefs is inadequate and becoming more so as we place new and greater stresses on these ecosystems. The future looks very dim, and yet we have the capacity to do a far more effective job of reef management if we want to. Making substantial improvements to the condition of these enormously valuable coastal marine ecosystems does not require new scientific discoveries, but a new commitment to apply the knowledge we already possess to manage our impacts so that sustainability becomes possible.
New protocol on integrated coastal zone management : Barcelona convention / Ivica Trumbic.
Environmental Policy and Law Vol 38(3) 2008: 145-153
Control of costal development is a major issue in the Mediterranean basin, since in most of the countries a high percentage of the population lives on the coast, and many economic activities are located there. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) has been gradually introduced into the coastal planning and management practices in many Mediterranean countries.
Under-resourced, under threat / Anthony J. Richardson and Elvira S. Poloczanska.
Science Vol 320(5881) 6 June 2008: 1294-1295
A coherent global vision is needed to better determine the impacts of climate change on marine systems.
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