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Marine Protected Areas: Securing Benefits for Sustainable Development - Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)
Marine protected areas offer one of the best options for maintaining or returning ocean and coastal ecosystems to healthy conditions, particularly when developed as part of a wider management system. Ecological benefits ...
Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
(2017)
This planet and its people face a growing number of challenges. They are as diverse as our cultures and environments, but they can all be tackled through a combination of science, policy and action. The Frontiers 2017 ...
Oceans: Marine Pollution: Keep the Oceans Clean - SDG Policy Brief No. 001
(2017)
Marine pollution is the result of deliberate or accidental discharge of untreated wastewater, dumping of solid wastes and other polluted runoff from a variety of land-based activities directly into our rivers and coastal ...
Gender Mainstreaming in the Management of the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. UN Environment Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 212
(2019)
This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a gender perspective in their design, implementation ...
Conference Report of the ‘GEF International Waters Science Conference 2012’ (IWSC 2012) : Setting the International Waters Science Agenda for the next Decade
(2012-09-26)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the UNDP/UNEP Global Environment Facility (GEF) IW:LEARN program and numerous partners held the first Global Environment ‘GEF International Waters Science ...
Regional State of the Coast Report: Western Indian Ocean - A Summary for Policy Makers
(2016-10-05)
The Regional State of Coast Report for the western Indian Ocean (WIO) provides insights into the enormous economic potential around the WIO, the consequential demand for marine ecosystem goods and services to match the ...
Pollution in the Open Oceans 2009-2013 - A Report by a GESAMP Task Team. Reports and Studies 91
(2015)
The present report examines new information and scientific perspectives on the open oceans that have emerged in the 5 year period since GESAMP first addressed this topic. Not all of the topics covered by the 2009 report ...
Why Value the Oceans? A Discussion Paper
(2012)
This discussion paper highlights areas of ocean and coastal management for which a better understanding of the economic value of marine ecosystem services could: • substantially improve the management of critical marine ...