While global oceans are facing extreme pressure from anthropogenic activities, such as marine pollution and ocean acidification, the Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctica) are still relatively pristine. Nevertheless, marine ecosystems in the Polar Regions are experiencing rapid changes. Climate...

As urged by planetary boundary scientists, ‘there is an urgent need for a new paradigm that integrates the continued development of human societies and the maintenance of the Earth system in a resilient and accommodating state'.1 With rising temperatures, melting ice, increased human...

Presented book is the first comprehensive publication which examines the impact of climate change on the legal situation of small island nations such as the Marshall Islands. Problems affecting these nations touching their legal situation in a very different way than in the case of large...

This Green Paper takes stock of what has been done. It then opens a debate on the best strategy for moving forward to a new phase that meets the challenges defined here and profits from the opportunities to deliver an accessible, sustainable digital mapping of European sea-beds by 2020. It would...

Foreword [pdf, 0.1 MB] Acknowledgements PHASE 1 [pdf, 0.2 MB] Summary of the PICES/NPRB Workshop on Forecasting Climate Impacts on Future Production of Commercially Exploited Fish and Shellfish (July 19–20, 2007, Seattle, U.S.A.) Background Links to Other Programs Workshop Format Session I....

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environmental constraints, policy management and technical innovation. The recent development of marine biotechnology , the discovery of a great...

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environmental constraints, policy management and technical innovation. The recent development of marine biotechnology , the discovery of a great...

This Meeting Summary and Statement is prepared as an input from the different stakeholders present to the on-going debate on the role of marine sciences and technologies in economic, social and environmental development (in the context of Lisbon and Gothenburg Agendas, etc) and as a cornerstone...

Abstract -- Major Demands of National Development on Marine Science & Technology -- The International Forefront and Trends of Development in Marine Science & Technology -- Status and Opportunities of Chinese Marine Science & Technology Development -- Major Scientific Problems and Technologies in...

The Scotia Arc is one of two regions in the Atlantic Ocean with greater potential for tsunami generation from seismic and volcanic sources. A numerical modeling study was undertaken to determine tsunami generation from postulated sources along the Arc and tsunami wave amplification or...

This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique...

This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy orientation. The study moves beyond traditional economic fishery analysis in two respects. First, several theoretical and numerical models are offered that combine economic and ecological descriptions...

Purpose – The present study aims to overview Brazilian human resources and scientific output in astronomy, immunology and oceanography during the last decade. Design/methodology/approach – Data on human resources and on scientific output were obtained from the Brazilian database, the...