Ecological Quality Status Of Marine Environment

Author : I. Ethem Gönenç,Angheluta Vadineanu,John P. Wolflin,Rosemarie C. Russo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402085581

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Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds by I. Ethem Gönenç,Angheluta Vadineanu,John P. Wolflin,Rosemarie C. Russo Pdf

John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: ...that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community. Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross sectorial boundaries (e.g. county, state/province, and country). No matter where you are, you are in a watershed! World-wide, watersheds supply drinking water, provide r- reation and respite, and sustain life. Watersheds are rich in natural capital, producing goods (agriculture and fisheries products) and services (industry and technology) for broad geographic areas. In many countries, at the base of watersheds where tributaries empty into large water-bodies (e.g. estuaries, seas, oceans) are centers of society and are typically densely populated areas. These areas serve as concentrated centers of the socio-economic system. They also are centers of domestic and international trade, tourism, and c- merce as well as the center of governments (capitals) where local, regional and national legislatures are located. As we all live in a watershed, our individual actions can directly affect it. The cumulative effects of all the individual actions of everyone within a watershed may be, and often are devastating to the quality of water resources and affect the health of living things including humans. Therefore, watershed systems are highly subject to threat to human security and peace.

Author : Gehan Mohamed El Zokm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Heavy metals
ISBN : 9783031292033

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Ecological Quality Status of Marine Environment by Gehan Mohamed El Zokm Pdf

The goal of this one-of-a-kind book was to provide a critical and in-depth understanding of various AVS-SEM models as predictors for assessing the ecological impact of heavy metals (particularly dibasic cations; Zn, Cd, Ni, Cu, and Pb) on aquatic environments, including the theories underlying these models, descriptive equations, modes of action, methodology, efficiency, applicability, and statistical approaches, as well as comparison with other pollution assessment techniques in the aquatic environments. Metals in interstitial water can be reduced in sediments that co-precipitate with iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) in FeS or MnS minerals, as well as replace them. This book outlines a system that can be used to track heavy metal contamination in countries with coastal regions that extend over water bodies that are subjected to pollution sources, such as the Mediterranean Basin countries. Moreover, this book will be of great interest to academics, professionals, practitioners, post-graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.), and undergraduates because it gives a clear overview of heavy metal assessment for people interested in environmental studies focusing on the marine environment. It also provides decision-makers with a realistic perspective of the environmental file, allowing them to address environmental issues and directing stockholders to safer locations for environmental activity. From a future perspective, management is advised to overcome the difficulties within that technique, such as accurate handling procedures and different approaches to sampling onshore and offshore. Sequential leaching strategies, especially geochemical fractionation analysis, and knowledge of the interactions and significance of AVS in the marine sector, especially toxicity tests (bioassay) are recommended.

Author : Canada. Marine Environmental Quality Advisory Group
Publisher : Dartmouth, N.S. : Marine Environmental Quality Advisory Group
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Arctic Coast (Canada)
ISBN : UVA:35007000483135

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Health of Our Oceans by Canada. Marine Environmental Quality Advisory Group Pdf

This report gives a perspective of national and international legislation and obligations; addresses the quality of Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic coasts and marine waters; presents an overview of Canada's marine environmental quality (MEQ) and identifies some next steps. The report focuses on threats to MEQ from toxic chemicals, industrial emissions, and anthropogenic physical changes.

Author : Angel Borja,Michael Elliott,María C. Uyarra,Jacob Carstensen,Marianna Mea
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889451265

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Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Science in Assessing the Health Status of Marine Ecosystems, 2nd Edition by Angel Borja,Michael Elliott,María C. Uyarra,Jacob Carstensen,Marianna Mea Pdf

Marine management requires approaches which bring together the best research from the natural and social sciences. It requires stakeholders to be well-informed by science and to work across administrative and geographical boundaries, a feature especially important in the inter-connected marine environment. Marine management must ensure that the natural structure and functioning of ecosystems is maintained to provide ecosystem services. Once those marine ecosystem services have been created, they deliver societal goods as long as society inputs its skills, time, money and energy to gather those benefits. However, if societal goods and benefits are to be limitless, society requires appropriate administrative, legal and management mechanisms to ensure that the use of such benefits do not impact on environmental quality, but instead support its sustainable use.

Author : João Carlos Marques
Publisher : Witpress
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845642090

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Ecological Indicators for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Assessment by João Carlos Marques Pdf

This book provides an updated revision and examples of application of indicators available to assess the status of coastal and transitional ecosystems. Moreover, a decision tree to be used as guidance in selecting which indicators should be applied in any particular case involving benthic fauna is proposed. Finally, differences in performance of various indicators are illustrated through a series of case studies on marine and estuarine ecosystems.

Author : Dilip Kumar Jha,Ganesh Thiruchitrambalam,Meilin Wu,Prashanthi Devi Marimuthu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832517260

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Coastal and marine environmental quality assessments by Dilip Kumar Jha,Ganesh Thiruchitrambalam,Meilin Wu,Prashanthi Devi Marimuthu Pdf

Author : Frederic Muttin,Helene Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786307583

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Marine Environmental Quality by Frederic Muttin,Helene Thomas Pdf

Understanding marine pollution and the contamination of coastal environments requires knowledge from a variety of scientific fields. Marine Environmental Quality promotes a multidisciplinary approach to investigations, drawing on not only natural sciences, but also applied mathematics and social sciences. The investigations in this book focus on both organic and inorganic pollutants, firstly in a study conducted in the city of La Rochelle, on the North Atlantic French coast, then expanding the areas under examination to regions of English and Portuguese waters and, lastly, to the Mediterranean Sea. The improvement such research can bring to biomarkers, models and experiments enables equal progress in the quality of seawater in ports and protected areas of coastal regions. The eight chapters of Marine Environmental Quality present many aspects of this research, including experiments with floating barriers, water governance in various areas, sampling sites and sentinel species that act as biomarkers in harbors. Also covered are environmental commitments, both international and local, the risk that marine contamination poses to human health, experimental designs for interactions with microplastics and a study biomonitoring the juveniles of sentinel species. Such results will bring many benefits, to human health, to economic inclusion and to regional development.

Author : Folkert de Jong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540336488

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Marine Eutrophication in Perspective by Folkert de Jong Pdf

Is ecological knowledge relevant to environmental policy and if so, to what extent and in what way? After a series of oxygen depletion events in coastal waters in the 1980s, North Sea states acted to reduce inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus to the North Sea. The book analyzes the role of scientists and scientific information, as well as civil servants, in the formulation and implementation of these decisions.

Author : Hasler, Berit,Ahtiainen, Heini,Hasselström, Linus,Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina,Soutukorva, Åsa,Martinsen, Louise
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789289344456

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Marine Ecosystem Services by Hasler, Berit,Ahtiainen, Heini,Hasselström, Linus,Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina,Soutukorva, Åsa,Martinsen, Louise Pdf

Marine Ecosystem Services (MARECOS) is an interdisciplinary study that provides relevant information for national, Nordic and international ecosystem services assessments and valuation in the implementation of marine policy. This report aims to provide suggestions on how ecosystem condition assessments, being based on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), and the HELCOM indicator based assessments for the Baltic Sea, could be used for the assessment of ecosystem services. By describing the potentials of linking data and knowledge describing the status of marine ecosystems and water quality to the values of the services and goods provided, the report offers useful information for policy and decision makers in the domain of the marine and aquatic policies around the Baltic and in the Nordic countries.

Author : Michelle Allsopp,Stefan E. Pambuccian,Paul Johnston,David Santillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402091162

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State of the World's Oceans by Michelle Allsopp,Stefan E. Pambuccian,Paul Johnston,David Santillo Pdf

The world’s oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface and are home to a myriad of amazing and beautiful creatures. However, the biodiversity of the oceans is incre- ingly coming under serious threat from many human activities including overfi- ing, use of destructive fishing methods, pollution and commercial aquaculture. In addition, climate change is already having an impact on some marine ecosystems. This book discusses some of the major threats facing marine ecosystems by cons- ering a range of topics, under chapters discussing biodiversity (Chapter 1), fisheries (Chapter 2), aquaculture (Chapter 3), pollution (Chapter 4) and the impacts of increasing greenhouse gas emissions (Chapter 5). It goes on to explore solutions to the problems by discussing equitable and sustainable management of the oceans (Chapter 6) and protecting marine ecosystems using marine reserves (Chapter 7). Presently, 76% of the oceans are fully or over-exploited with respect to fishing, and many species have been severely depleted. It is abundantly clear that, in general, current fisheries management regimes are to blame for much of the widespread degradation of the oceans. Many policy-makers and scientists now agree that we must adopt a radical new approach to managing the seas – one that is precautionary in nature and has protection of the whole marine ecosystem as its primary objective. This ‘ecosystem-based approach’ is vital if we are to ensure the health of our oceans for future generations.

Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198564829

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Aquatic Food Webs by Andrea Belgrano Pdf

'Aquatic Food Webs' provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. The textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.

Author : Frederic Muttin,Helene Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119866213

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Marine Environmental Quality by Frederic Muttin,Helene Thomas Pdf

Understanding marine pollution and the contamination of coastal environments requires knowledge from a variety of scientific fields. Marine Environmental Quality promotes a multidisciplinary approach to investigations, drawing on not only natural sciences, but also applied mathematics and social sciences. The investigations in this book focus on both organic and inorganic pollutants, firstly in a study conducted in the city of La Rochelle, on the North Atlantic French coast, then expanding the areas under examination to regions of English and Portuguese waters and, lastly, to the Mediterranean Sea. The improvement such research can bring to biomarkers, models and experiments enables equal progress in the quality of seawater in ports and protected areas of coastal regions. The eight chapters of Marine Environmental Quality present many aspects of this research, including experiments with floating barriers, water governance in various areas, sampling sites and sentinel species that act as biomarkers in harbors. Also covered are environmental commitments, both international and local, the risk that marine contamination poses to human health, experimental designs for interactions with microplastics and a study biomonitoring the juveniles of sentinel species. Such results will bring many benefits, to human health, to economic inclusion and to regional development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fishes
ISBN : UCSD:31822023868904

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The National Status and Trends Program for Marine Environmental Quality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles W. Finkl,Christopher Makowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319063058

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Environmental Management and Governance by Charles W. Finkl,Christopher Makowski Pdf

This book deals with recent advances in coastal marine environmental management and governance. Various chapters consider new aspects of conservation, assessment of ecosystem health status, environmental survey and protection, frameworks of ocean service and governance, new applications of geo processing and GIS technology, beach management, aquaculture site selection, assessment of water quality (brine disposal and temperature dispersion from nuclear power plants), exploration and management of coastal karst, changing perceptions of dune management, advances in interpretation of sea-level indicators and real time environmental monitoring. New advances in both environmental management and governance are of the utmost importance for sustaining critical coastal marine areas. Offering such a diverse collection of works from coastal scientists around the world, who discuss many techniques and methods at the forefront of management and governance, this publication will be of interest to coastal researchers, coastal zone managers and regulatory agency personnel.

Author : Bernardo Duarte,Maria Isabel Violante Caçador
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351973229

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Ecotoxicology of Marine Organisms by Bernardo Duarte,Maria Isabel Violante Caçador Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive review of the most recent studies on the impact of contaminants on the marine environment. Conventional and new information, as well as the latest techniques, are presented, which can be applied to several types of marine organisms from bacteria and fungi to animals and algae. Specific topics discussed include the impact of different contaminants on different organisms as well as different approaches and their outcomes in terms of impact assessment. The integration of these techniques is also discussed in order to attain sentinel species and biomarkers to be applied for assessing ecological quality and impact assessment programs and studies.