A preliminary assessment of the indicators for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for …

LR Virto - Marine Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The SDGs are intended to address sustainable development processes in both developed
and developing countries, and to facilitate action at all levels and with all actors, including …

Good or bad vibrations? Impacts of anthropogenic vibration on the marine epibenthos

L Roberts, M Elliott - Science of the total environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic activities directly contacting the seabed, such as drilling and pile-driving,
produce a significant vibration likely to impact benthic invertebrates. As with terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] “And DPSIR begat DAPSI (W) R (M)!”-a unifying framework for marine environmental management

M Elliott, D Burdon, JP Atkins, A Borja, R Cormier… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
The marine environment is a complex system formed by interactions between ecological
structure and functioning, physico-chemical processes and socio-economic systems. An …

An Estuary Ecosystem Classification that encompasses biogeography and a high diversity of types in support of protection and management

L Van Niekerk, JB Adams, NC James… - African Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
For nearly three decades, the Whitfield (1992) characterisation scheme served as a
reference framework to type South African estuaries. We outline a revised ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem health assessment and comparison of natural and constructed wetlands in the arid zone of northwest China

X Zhu, L Jiao, X Wu, D Du, J Wu, P Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Wetlands in the arid zone of northwest China have ecological values such as climate
regulation, water conservation, and biodiversity maintenance. However, in the context of …

How can marine ecosystem services support the Blue Growth agenda?

AI Lillebø, C Pita, JG Rodrigues, S Ramos, S Villasante - Marine Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The EU Blue Growth Agenda targets maritime economic activities that have the sea
and the coasts as drivers. These activities are supported by marine Ecosystem Services (ES) …

Unravelling persistent problems to transformative marine governance

C Kelly, G Ellis, W Flannery - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coasts are dynamic socio-ecological systems, subject to increasing anthropogenic
pressures that present complex challenges for the design of effective coastal and marine …

Operationalizing ocean health: Toward integrated research on ocean health and recovery to achieve ocean sustainability

A Franke, T Blenckner, CM Duarte, K Ott, LE Fleming… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Protecting the ocean has become a major goal of international policy as human activities
increasingly endanger the integrity of the ocean ecosystem, often summarized as" ocean …

Managing marine resources sustainably: A proposed integrated systems analysis approach

M Elliott, Á Borja, R Cormier - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Marine and estuarine management requires an excellent understanding of the interacting,
interrelated and interdependent sub-systems comprising ecological, societal and …

A review of the tools used for marine monitoring in the UK: combining historic and contemporary methods with modeling and socioeconomics to fulfill legislative needs …

TP Bean, N Greenwood, R Beckett… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Marine environmental monitoring is undertaken to provide evidence that environmental
management targets are being met. Moreover, monitoring also provides context to marine …