Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are essential to reach the UN Ocean's Decade challenges
and the Sustainable Development Goal 14 (life bellow water–conserve coastal and marine …

Ecosystem services is a concept broadly applicable to describe environmental interrelations
with human activities. It serves as a practical instrument for assessing the success of …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are intangible benefits people obtain from an ecosystem
through physical and cognitive interactions. Understanding CES provides vital insights into …

Considering the crucial debates on sustainable development it is significant to understand
the link between the development of tourism in small island countries and the ecological …

The coordination between economic development as well as water resources conservation
in ecologically fragile areas is the basis for achieving sustainable development in …

Environmental regulations aim to eliminate pollution while having a minimal impact on the
economy. However, there is hotly debate about its effects on economic activity. Given this …

Introduction Coastal tourism has become an important pillar of economic growth in China's
coastal regions, yet no quantitative research has analyzed the relationship between coastal …

This study explores the role of linkingengagement (LE) of informal leaders to the positive
and negative ecological impacts of coastal and maritime tourism on the sustainable …

Ocean tourism is a primary source of income for many small-island and coastal
communities. Participatory processes have been advocated to develop and implement …

Three interrelated zones were examined to analyze the trend in physicochemical and
microbiological parameters assemblages especially at the southwest (premonsoon) and …