Large Marine Ecosystems Assessment and Management Approach 2005-2010Iwl Pcu
Objectives: Recovery of depleted fish biomass and fisheries to promote greater food security, sustainable productivity, and socioeconomic benefits.
Reduction in pollution and eutrophication levels of coastal waters.
Restoration of degraded habitats including coral reefs, mangroves, and wetlands.
Large Marine Ecosystems Assessment and Management Approach 2005-2010Iwl Pcu
Objectives: Recovery of depleted fish biomass and fisheries to promote greater food security, sustainable productivity, and socioeconomic benefits.
Reduction in pollution and eutrophication levels of coastal waters.
Restoration of degraded habitats including coral reefs, mangroves, and wetlands.
Speaker: YVES HENOCQUE
- IFREMER (INSTITUTE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEA) MARITIME STRATEGY SENIOR ADVISOR
- JAMSTEC (JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) GUEST RESEARCHER
- OPRF (OCEAN POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION) VISITING FELLOW
Marine protected area Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes .[2] These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities.[3] MPAs restrict human activity for a conservation purpose, typically to protect natural or cultural resources.[4] Such marine resources are protected by local, state, territorial, native, regional, national, or international authorities and differ substantially among and between nations. This variation includes different limitations on development, fishing practices, fishing seasons and catch limits, moorings and bans on removing or disrupting marine life. In some situations (such as with the Phoenix Islands Protected Area), MPAs also provide revenue for countries, potentially equal to the income that they would have if they were to grant companies permissions to fish.[5]
On 28 October 2016 in Hobart, Australia, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources agreed to establish the first Antarctic and largest marine protected area in the world encompassing 1.55 million km2 (600,000 sq mi) in the Ross Sea.[6] Other large MPAs are in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans, in certain exclusive economic zones of Australia and overseas territories of France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with major (990,000 square kilometres (380,000 sq mi) or larger) new or expanded MPAs by these nations since 2012—such as Natural Park of the Coral Sea, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area. When counted with MPAs of all sizes from many other countries, as of August 2016 there are more than 13,650 MPAs, encompassing 2.07% of the world's oceans, with half of that area – encompassing 1.03% of the world's oceans – receiving complete "no-take" designation.[7]
Protected areas are those in which human occupation or at least the exploitation of resources is limited.
The definition that has been widely accepted across regional and global frameworks has been provided by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its categorization guidelines for protected areas.
There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organizations involved.
The term "protected area" also includes
Marine Protected Areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and
Trans boundary Protected Areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes.
National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act and E (expanded) - NI...Bevs Dela Cruz
The presentation provides the overview of the Republic Acts 7568 and 11038 of 1992 and 2018, respectively. The latter is the amendment of the former in which 94 new areas (some are initial components) have been declared under the protected areas system.
This report was presented in ENS (Environmental Science) 275: Contemporary Issues in the Environment and Development, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines.
Speaker: YVES HENOCQUE
- IFREMER (INSTITUTE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEA) MARITIME STRATEGY SENIOR ADVISOR
- JAMSTEC (JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) GUEST RESEARCHER
- OPRF (OCEAN POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION) VISITING FELLOW
Marine protected area Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes .[2] These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities.[3] MPAs restrict human activity for a conservation purpose, typically to protect natural or cultural resources.[4] Such marine resources are protected by local, state, territorial, native, regional, national, or international authorities and differ substantially among and between nations. This variation includes different limitations on development, fishing practices, fishing seasons and catch limits, moorings and bans on removing or disrupting marine life. In some situations (such as with the Phoenix Islands Protected Area), MPAs also provide revenue for countries, potentially equal to the income that they would have if they were to grant companies permissions to fish.[5]
On 28 October 2016 in Hobart, Australia, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources agreed to establish the first Antarctic and largest marine protected area in the world encompassing 1.55 million km2 (600,000 sq mi) in the Ross Sea.[6] Other large MPAs are in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans, in certain exclusive economic zones of Australia and overseas territories of France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with major (990,000 square kilometres (380,000 sq mi) or larger) new or expanded MPAs by these nations since 2012—such as Natural Park of the Coral Sea, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area. When counted with MPAs of all sizes from many other countries, as of August 2016 there are more than 13,650 MPAs, encompassing 2.07% of the world's oceans, with half of that area – encompassing 1.03% of the world's oceans – receiving complete "no-take" designation.[7]
Protected areas are those in which human occupation or at least the exploitation of resources is limited.
The definition that has been widely accepted across regional and global frameworks has been provided by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its categorization guidelines for protected areas.
There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organizations involved.
The term "protected area" also includes
Marine Protected Areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and
Trans boundary Protected Areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes.
National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act and E (expanded) - NI...Bevs Dela Cruz
The presentation provides the overview of the Republic Acts 7568 and 11038 of 1992 and 2018, respectively. The latter is the amendment of the former in which 94 new areas (some are initial components) have been declared under the protected areas system.
This report was presented in ENS (Environmental Science) 275: Contemporary Issues in the Environment and Development, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines.
MAB-IHP Regional Symposium: Managing Water Resources in Biosphere Reserves in...UNESCO Venice Office
Gabriela Morozov, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania
Venice, 16-17 December 2021
Overall responsibility for the views and opinions expressed in the slides is taken by the authors
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Sea Level Rise & the Conservation of Wetlands: Issues and Opportunities for C...riseagrant
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Chelsea Siefert, RI Statewide Planning Program
Teresa Crean, URI Coastal Resources Center / RI Sea Grant
STORMTOOLS* -Simplified Flood Inundation Maps for RI with Sea Level Rise (SLR)riseagrant
Malcolm L. Spaulding1
Chris Damon2
1Professor Emeritus, Ocean Engineering
2Environmental Data Center
University of RI
December 9, 2014
*http://www.beachsamp.org/research/stormtools/
Narragansett, RI
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Learn about:
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
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• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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Leading Change strategies and insights for effective change management pdf 1.pdf
Herald Marencic 30 Years of Dutch-German-Danish Cooperation on the Protection of the Wadden Sea
1. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation
30 Years of Dutch-German-
Danish Cooperation on the
Protection of the Wadden Sea
Harald Marencic
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
1
2. Denmark
The Wadden Sea
• Largest unbroken system of tidal flats world wide
• Highly productive ecosystem with natural dynamics
• 10-12 mill. migratory birds pass through the area
• Shared by 3 countries – and well protected
Germany
The Netherlands
2
5. Outstanding
Universal Value
(OUV)
1. Criteria OUV:
viii: geology, ix: ecological
processes, x: biodiversity
2. Integrity:
10,000 km² represents all
habitats, species and
processes
3. Appropriate Protection
and Management
National Parks/nature
reserves, Wadden Sea
Plan, Monitoring (TMAP)
6. The Wadden Sea Region
The Wadden Sea is an area where people
live, work and recreate.
About 75,000 inhabitants in the Wadden Sea
Cooperation Area (on islands).
About 3.7 million inhabitants on the mainland in
the Wadden Sea Region
7. Social and Economic Development
Harbours
• Hamburg: 149 mill. tons/y
• Bremerhaven: 74 mill. tons/y
• Wilhelmshaven: 40 mill. tons/y
• Others (Den Helder, Harlingen,
Delfzijl/Eeemshaven, Emden, Brake,
Brunsbüttel, Esbjerg): 24 mill. tons/y
Fishery
• About 500 ships with 1300 employees,
high local economic relevance;
• Landings: 160,000 tons, 110 Mill. Euro
Agriculture
• 44,500 farms
• 1,800 ha agricultural land in use
• 55,000 employees
Sources: WSF 2004, QSR 2004 & 2009
8. Social and Economic Development
Tourism in the Wadden Sea Region
• 10 million tourists per year
• About 70 million overnight
stays
• 30 – 40 million day trippers
every year
Turnover per year:
2.8 – 5.3 Billion Euro
Sources: QSR 2004 & 2009
9. Wadden Sea Cooperation – The History
1970s
Pollution, eutrophication, habitat degradation
Decline of bird and marine mammal populations
1980s
Large scale protection schemes and national
parks – Wadden Sea coast under protection
1990s
Ecosystem based management and
monitoring (TMAP), integrated policies
2010
Adaptation to climate change
2030
Main issue ?
10. National Conservation Regimes
Denmark: 1983 Statutory Order Nature
and Wildlife Reserve (From 2010: National
Park)
Conservation Area
11,000 km²
Germany: Federal Nature Protection Law,
1986 National Park Laws (3 Federal States)
The Netherlands: 1980 Nature Protection Act,
Planning Decree Wadden Sea
11. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation
Guiding principle: “to achieve, as far
as possible, a natural and sustainable
ecosystem in which natural processes
proceed in an undisturbed way”.
Trilateral Cooperation Area
1982/2010 Joint Declaration on the
Protection km² Wadden Sea
14,700 of the
1987 Common Wadden Sea Secretariat
1993 Monitoring Programme TMAP
1997/2010 Wadden Sea Plan
2009 UNESCO World Heritage Site
12. Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan
Vision
A Wadden Sea which Management natural and
Guiding Principle and is a unique,
Principles and Integrated Ecosystem
dynamic ecosystem with characteristic
Management
biodiversity, vast open landscapes and rich
cultural heritage, enjoyed by all, and delivering
Sustainable development, communication,
information and education way to present and
benefits in a sustainable
future generations.
Overarching themes: Climate change,
alien species, shipping safety
Ecological Targets and Trilateral
Policy and Management
13. Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan
Ecological Targets: Regulations on :
• Landscape and • Agriculture
Culture • Fishery
• Water and Sediment • Hunting
• Salt Marshes • Dredging and dumping
• Tidal Area (tidal flats • Sand and clay extraction
and subtidal gullies)
• Tourism
• Beaches and Dunes
• Shipping
• Estuaries
• Energy (wind, gas, oil)
• Offshore Zone
• others
• Birds
• Marine Mammals
• Fish
14. Tidal Area – “Ecological Targets”
1. Natural dynamic situation in the tidal area.
2. An increased area of geomorphological and biologically
undisturbed tidal flats and subtidal areas.
3. A natural size, distribution and development of natural
mussel beds, Sabellaria reefs and seagras fields.
4. Viable stocks and natural reproduction capacity of marine
mammals, conservation of habitat quality,
5. Numbers and distribution of birds, natural breeding
success, connectivity between habitats, as well as
breeding, feeding, moulting and roosting sites,
6. Fish: Viable stocks and natural reproduction, occurrence
and abundance, habitat quality, connectivity
15. Tidal Area – Trilateral Policy and Management
1. Coastal defense: enlargement of dikes outside, sand
nourishment instead of dikes
2. Shipping (PSSA), harbors and industry (no new structures)
3. Closure for wind turbines (but: cables, external),
4. No mineral extraction,
5. No mussel fishery on stable beds (high biodiv), food
reservation policy for birds
6. Tourism: visitor guidance system, spatial or temporal
closure of sensitive habitats
7. Site protection, disturbance (farming, wind energy, air traffic,
military activities), pollution reduction
17. Management of Tourism: German National Parks
Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan
Introducing and applying information
systems (visitor guidance),
Temporal and spatial zoning and/or closure
of ecologically most sensitive areas such
as bird breeding and moulting areas.
Schleswig-Holstein NP
Lower Saxony NP
18. Quality Status Report 2009
Nutrient inputs decreased. But: the Wadden Sea is
still a “eutrophication problem area”
N P
Source: Beusekom et al., 2009 (QSR 2009)
20. Quality Status Report 2009
Harbour Seal population is doing
well
Source: Reijnders et al. 2009
21. Quality Status Report 2009
The numbers of many
migratory birds have
improved
8 species show strong or
moderate increases, 12 species
are stable, and 14 species are
decreasing.
Compared to 2004, there has
been some improvement in the
development for several
species.
Source: Laursen et al. 2009
22. Challenges
• Adaptation to climate changes and accelerated sea level rise
• Protection and restoration of natural dynamics,
•geo-morpholgical processes (sediment transport),
•habitat dynamics (dune dynamics, restoration of estuaries),
•migration of species (fish, birds)
• Closing of gaps in knowledge on subtidal and offshore habitats
and species (ecology, monitoring, management)
• Reduction of external impacts, such as input of contaminants
and nutrients, litter, shipping and invasion of alien species,
• Enhance International Cooperation, especially on protection of
migrating species (bird flyway) and biodiversity
25. Sustainable Tourism
• EU Interreg IVB project PROWAD – “Protect and Prosper”
• Total budget 1.3 Mio Euro
• Ministries, National Park Agencies, WWF, Tourism and Marketing
Organizations
• Development of a consistent sustainable tourism strategy for the
entire Wadden Sea in a participatory approach (2012)
Task Group
• Implementation Action Plan (2013 – 2014) Sustainable Tourism Strategy
26. Summary
• Management must be done at an ecosystem level
(integration of the total system of the habitat) – functional
delimitation instead administrational borders.
• Scientific information and monitoring has been critical for
the success of protection in the Wadden Sea – long term
data series
• Communication, education and public awareness supports
conservation (identity and pride of locals)
• International Cooperation (bird flyway, scientific and
management aspects, global importance of tidal flats)
• Nature conservation can be a driver for socio-economic
development: World Heritage and sustainable tourism