Management frameworks for coastal and marine pollution in the European and South East Asian regions

MGJP Tiquio, N Marmier, P Francour - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The continuing threat of pollution on coastal and marine environment and resources has
been addressed on regional scale over the past decades. This paper describes and …

Towards a new integrated beach management system: the ecosystem-based management system for beaches

R Sardá, JF Valls, J Pintó, E Ariza, JP Lozoya… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2015 - Elsevier
Massive use of beaches has forced traditional management of these systems to focus on the
service offer to users. Consequently, human activity and behavior prevailed over other …

SOCIB: the Balearic Islands coastal ocean observing and forecasting system responding to science, technology and society needs

J Tintoré, G Vizoso, B Casas, E Heslop… - Marine Technology …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
New monitoring technologies are being progressively implemented in open-ocean and
coastal observatories. The Mediterranean Sea is a well-known, reduced-scale ocean, an …

A proposed ecosystem-based management system for marine waters: linking the theory of environmental policy to the practice of environmental management

R Sardà, T O'Higgins, R Cormier, A Diedrich… - Ecology and Society, 2014 - JSTOR
New coastal and marine management strategies have recently been developed in many
countries and regions. From an ecosystem approach perspective, the aim of such strategies …

Toward the next generation of air quality monitoring: Mercury

N Pirrone, W Aas, S Cinnirella, R Ebinghaus… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Mercury is a global pollutant that is ubiquitous in the environment. Enrichment of mercury in
the biosphere as the result of human activities and subsequent production of methylmercury …

The high biodiversity and vulnerability of two Mediterranean bathyal seamounts support the need for creating offshore protected areas

M Bo, M Coppari, F Betti, F Enrichetti… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seamounts host some of the most important deep‐sea ecosystems. The unique
environmental characteristics of seamounts sustain rich biological hot spots, which, in recent …

European marine biodiversity monitoring networks: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

J Patrício, S Little, K Mazik… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
By 2020, European Union Member States should achieve Good Environmental Status (GES)
for 11 environmental quality descriptors for their marine waters to fulfill the Marine Strategy …

The development of a spatial data infrastructure to support marine spatial planning in Greece

M Vaitis, V Kopsachilis, G Tataris, VI Michalakis… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has been recognized as an essential tool for
reducing the increasing pressures on marine and coastal areas (resulting from human …

Sustaining Europe's seas as coupled social-ecological systems

L Mee, P Cooper, A Kannen, AJ Gilbert, T O'Higgins - Ecology and Society, 2015 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND There is ample evidence for human alteration of Europe's regional seas,
particularly the enclosed or partly enclosed Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas …

Mercury in the Mediterranean. Part 2: processes and mass balance

D Žagar, N Sirnik, M Četina, M Horvat, J Kotnik… - … Science and Pollution …, 2014 - Springer
Mass balance of contaminants can provide useful information on the processes that
influence their concentrations in various environmental compartments. The most important …