Journal ArticleCoastal Management · March 4, 2015
This special issue provides insight into global conservation science by analyzing a 5-year, $12.5 million global marine conservation science and policy program that included over 50 studies in four priority regions involving over 100 scientists and numerou ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · March 4, 2015
This article is part of a special issue that provides insight into global conservation science by analyzing a 5-year, $12.5 million global marine conservation science and policy program. In this article, we summarize the development of the program in Beliz ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · March 4, 2015
This article is part of a special issue that provides insight into global conservation science by analyzing a 5-year, $12.5 million global marine conservation science and policy program. In this article, we summarize the development of the program in Fiji. ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · March 4, 2015
Drawing on experiences from the four regions and the overall conduct of the Marine Management Area Science (MMAS) program, this concluding article highlights emergent cross-cutting themes that affected MMAS programs across the regions, summarizes the impor ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Policy · January 1, 2014
Marine spatial planning (MSP) has emerged worldwide as a tool for sustainable ocean governance. This paper reviews how sustainability and ecosystem-based management (EBM) have been included so far within the MSP general framework, by carrying out: (1) a re ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Policy · January 1, 2014
With one of Europe's largest exclusive economic zones, Portugal has a paramount role in the implementation of EU maritime policies. In the Portuguese context, ocean planning and management are presently undergoing major advances. This paper analyzes and di ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Pollution Bulletin · September 15, 2013
A flow of key information links marine spatial planning (MSP) and oil spill risk analysis (OSRA), two distinct processes needed to achieve true sustainable management of coastal and marine areas. OSRA informs MSP on areas of high risk to oil spills allowin ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Policy · September 1, 2012
The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is considered to be the environmental pillar of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy, establishing a framework within which member states must take the necessary measures to achieve, or maintain, good environm ...
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Journal ArticleOcean and Coastal Management · March 1, 2009
Coastal areas are among the world's most vulnerable landscapes to impacts related to climate change, including inundation from sea-level rise (SLR), increased exposure to shoreline erosion, and greater frequency and intensity of storms. The status of resea ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Ecology Progress Series · July 29, 2008
All environmental law and policy, including potential policy governing ocean fertilization, involves trade-offs between the state of the world's biophysical ecology, by which we mean all of the non-human elements, and the state of the world's human ecology ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Networks · January 1, 2002
Recent studies have found that individuals tend to see themselves as more central in a network than they really are. This body of work has generally been done among small groups of <30 actors. Additionally, settings have usually been in a well-bounded soci ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · 1990
In the last decade several coastal states in the US have made initiatives in the area of ocean policy and management. These initiatives have been tempered by the particular physical, socioeconomic, and political circumstances of each state. This article re ...
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Journal ArticleOcean and Shoreline Management · 1990
The need for interjurisdictional management of natural resources arises because both the natural resources themselves and the users of those resources move across political and administrative jurisdictions. Since the users of the resources, and not the res ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Policy Reports · 1989
The article first presents a general overview of the involvement of the US tuna fisheries, and in setting policy for and management of tuna fisheries. The general questions are: what is the total set of tuna-related large pelagics fisheries in which US fis ...
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Journal ArticleOcean and Shoreline Management · 1989
Since at least the turn of the century fisheries in the United States have been managed through formal public policy processes at the state level and above, as opposed to indigenous or local management. These processes have grown more complex over time, an ...
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Journal ArticleLeisure Sciences · 1986
Examines the role of culture in determining leisure beach activities using the example of the differential development of marine recreational fishing and surfing on the East and West Coasts of the US. Based on participant observation, legal histories, and ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Zone Management Journal · 1983
Since the mid-seventies, Indochinese fishermen have been entering the fishing industry in the United States in substantial numbers. Their entry into this occupation has been marked by contraditions, and can be characterized as 'success in failure'. While a ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Technology Society Journal · 1982
The paper discusses whether the United States has a coherent ocean policy, the abilty to collect and interpret scientific data in support of coastal and ocean management, the domestic organization of authority and responsibility with respect to marine poli ...
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