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• Environmental risk assessment of marine activities
  ...ent (EcoRA) of Marine activities'''. We first describe the general aspects and steps of the ERA process that most risk assessments are confronted with. Th ...osystem]] in the economic impacts assessment, extinction or total catch in ecological risk assessment.
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• Land-ocean interaction in the coastal zone
  ...core project of the International Geosphere and Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change ...ed decision making or, in other words, to protect coasts and coastal goods and services for future generations. The goal of LOICZ was:
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• Global Forum of Oceans, Coasts and Islands
  ...common goal of encouraging the sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and islands. ==Third Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands==
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• Convention on Biological Diversity
  ...uence of humans. It forms the web of life of which we are an integral part and upon which we so fully depend. ...characteristics). [[Biodiversity]] provides [[ecosystems|ecosystem]] goods and services that sustain our lives.
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• The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ...ique and especially fragile ecosystems, being areas of great environmental and aesthetic value. ...habitats listed in the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora Directive are coastal. Approximately a third of the Union's wetlands
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ..., C. 1993. Essential elements of integrated coastal zone management. Ocean and Coastal Management 21:81-108</ref>. ...he terrestrial and marine components of the target territory, in both time and space”<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:200
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• River basin management, ICZM and spatial planning
  ==Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Integrated Water Resources Management== ===The rise of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Integrated Coastal Area and River Basin Management===
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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Integrated Water Resources Management
  ...elated physical and biological processes as they operate across the marine and coastal/terestrial boundaries is central to the development of sensitive ma ===The rise of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Integrated Coastal Area and River Basin Management===
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• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
  ...on= This Convention lays down the general obligations of states to protect and preserve the marine environment. The [http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm ...political stakes, regulations about its use have been established for ages and the corpus of laws is now covering a lot of different topics.
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• Estuary
  ..., water quality and morphology – for example: import of marine sediments and organisms, generation of a high turbidity zone, sedimentation/erosion of in ...presence of tides and a prominent system of channels and shoals (open bays and enclosed coastal seas such as the Bohai Sea or North Sea therefore do not q
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• Harmful algal bloom
  ...uce biotoxins. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can occur in marine, estuarine, and fresh waters.<br> ...algal blooms: effects, environmental conditions, factors that promote HABs and management measures.
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• Coupled hydrodynamic - water quality - ecological modelling
  ...the 'effect chain' approach for modelling marine and coastal water quality and ecology. ...re complete food chain model, including pelagic fish, demersal fish, birds and marine mammals.
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• Consultation on Maritime Policy: the issue of Capacity Building
  ...rope with a dynamic maritime economy, responsive to sustainable principles and in harmony with the marine environment. ...place a heavy burden on the existing educational and training institutions and resources.
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• Functional diversity in marine ecosystems
  ...., 24: 505-514</ref>.<br> Functional group: Groups of species with similar ecological roles/functions.}} Functional diversity refers to the variety of biological processes, functions or characteristics of a particular ecosystem in this case the [[
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• Effects of global climate change on European marine biodiversity
  This article discusses global warming and the range of effects on marine systems. ...Impacts of climate change on the European marine and coastal environment: ecosystems approach.'' European Science Foundation, Marine Board: Strasbourg, France.'
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• Marine Spatial Planning - the need for a common language
  ...we need marine [[spatial planning]], how it can be defined appropriately, and what benefits it can offer. It also briefly discusses some international ex ...es including recreation, mineral extraction, and more recently wind energy and offshore marine aquaculture, have started to claim their own spaces in the
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• Eutrophication in coastal environments
  |name=Job Dronkers and Justus van Beusekom|AuthorID=120| ...gative effects of eutrophication requires reduction of [[nutrient]] inputs and an ecosystem-based management strategy. The bio-geochemical cycles of nutri
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• Mangroves
  ...roduction is given to management aspects, discussing threats, conservation and [[Ecosystem rehabilitation|rehabilitation]] of mangrove forests. ...ropical coasts, i.e. North and South America, Africa and Middle-East, Asia and Oceania (incl. Australia). <ref name="vliz">http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/man
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• Seagrass meadows
  ...stics, distribution, [[zonation]], succession, biota, threats, functioning and adaptations of the organisms that live in seagrass meadows. Seagrass communities are highly productive and dynamic [[ecosystems]]. Seagrasses are not true grasses but rooted vascular (flowering) plants o
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• Sea ice ecosystem
  ...ckmann, G. S., Sea ice. An introduction to its physics, chemistry, biology and geology. Blackwell Science, pp 1-21</ref>. ...nology, and methodology. Polar Biol 12:417-427</ref>. Land-fast ice forms and remains fast along the coast, attached to the shore or grounded to a shallo
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