Agenda Topics for Sustainability of Mexican Coasts and Oceans

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Sánchez-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Thematic Synthesis ◽  
Great Heterogeneity ◽  
Marine Areas ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Transitional System

This book must be considered, as a representative thematic synthesis for understanding the dynamics of a transitional system, great heterogeneity of habitats and associated high biodiversity, ranging from the lower basin of rivers, wetlands, lagoons-estuaries, estuarine plume and adjacent marine areas. It is a document of analysis on the interrelations and connectivities of this great ecological mosaic, strongly influenced by natural variables, processes and coastal cycles that condition its functional structure; but also on the presence and intervention of activities socio-economic, energy trends, and global changes. Topics leading to reflection on the environmental sustainability of coastal development and management needs for integrated management.

scholarly journals Soil Erosion Prediction Based on Moth-Flame Optimizer-Evolved Kernel Extreme Learning Machine

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 2115
Author(s):  
Chengcheng Chen ◽  
Xianchang Wang ◽  
Chengwen Wu ◽  
Majdi Mafarja ◽  
Hamza Turabieh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Extreme Learning Machine ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
Natural Soil ◽  
Prediction Problem ◽  
Kernel Parameter ◽  
Kernel Extreme Learning Machine ◽  
Learning Machine

Soil erosion control is a complex, integrated management process, constructed based on unified planning by adjusting the land use structure, reasonably configuring engineering, plant, and farming measures to form a complete erosion control system, while meeting the laws of soil erosion, economic and social development, and ecological and environmental security. The accurate prediction and quantitative forecasting of soil erosion is a critical reference indicator for comprehensive erosion control. This paper applies a new swarm intelligence optimization algorithm to the soil erosion classification and prediction problem, based on an enhanced moth-flame optimizer with sine–cosine mechanisms (SMFO). It is used to improve the exploration and detection capability by using the positive cosine strategy, meanwhile, to optimize the penalty parameter and the kernel parameter of the kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) for the rainfall-induced soil erosion classification prediction problem, to obtain more-accurate soil erosion classifications and the prediction results. In this paper, a dataset of the Vietnam Son La province was used for the model evaluation and testing, and the experimental results show that this SMFO-KELM method can accurately predict the results, with significant advantages in terms of classification accuracy (ACC), Mathews correlation coefficient (MCC), sensitivity (sensitivity), and specificity (specificity). Compared with other optimizer models, the adopted method is more suitable for the accurate classification of soil erosion, and can provide new solutions for natural soil supply capacity analysis, integrated erosion management, and environmental sustainability judgment.

scholarly journals BLUE GRABBING AMIDST THE APPLICATION OF BLUE ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-71
Author(s):  
Melianus Mesakh Taebenu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Job Transition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Blue Economy ◽  
Development Plans

Over the past decades, the roles of the ocean have become more crucial. Apart from its increasingly environmental roles, the ocean has been a new global economic frontier. This makes international communities have introduced blue economy, as a new paradigm that integrates the principles of social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and economic growth, to steward the ocean. Nonetheless, the ocean is also threatened by the practices of blue grabbing. This paper aims to investigate to what extend the practices of blue grabbing form a barrier to the application of blue economy in Indonesia. Moreover, this paper aims to discuss the policy implication of this issue. It is revealed that in the case of Indonesia, blue economy has preceded to a better design of policies in governing the ocean. Yet, a threat in the form of blue grabbing, which is mostly disguised by the narratives of providing incentives for investment and recovering the environmental destruction, still exists in this country. Policy implications of this issue, therefore, include engaging more small actors into policy-making processes, preparing job transition for those impacted by marine and coastal development plans, and mainstreaming population policy into the blue economy.

scholarly journals Research progress of “shared nurses” under the family community hospital integrated management mode

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Xiao-Jing Guo ◽  
Li-Li Wei ◽  
Yu-Biao Gai ◽  
Si-Long Gao ◽  
Hui Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Hospital ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development And Management

AbstractIn order to meet the diverse and multilevel health service needs of the people, following the implementation of the “multi-point practice” of registered physicians by the government in 2009, many pilot projects on the legality of “shared nurses” have been carried out, but there are many difficulties in the process. Through reviewing and researching the relevant literature inland and abroad, this study explores the application of family-community-hospital integrated medical and nursing management model in order to provide a reference for the development and management of “shared nurses” in China.

The Food-Environment-Health Nexus of nutrition security in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Rulli ◽  
Livia Ricciardi ◽  
Davide Danilo Chiarelli ◽  
Paolo D'Odorico
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food System ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Food Supplementation ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Children Under Five ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

<p>Feeding humanity while preserving environmental sustainability is one of the major challenges of the next few decades. Many of the global changes for planetary sustainability are due to the food system that is increasing production at the expense of the environment. However, nutrition related diseases caused by low quality diets are on the rise. The 2018 FAO report on  State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World shows that the number of malnourished people keeps increasing.  Undernourished people account for 821 million, including 151 million children under five affected by stunting, while the lives of over 50 million children in the world continue to be threatened by wasting. On the other hand, over 38 million children under five years of age are overweight, 672 million adults are obese, while diabetes, high blood pressure and anaemia are increasing.</p><p>Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) is a major problem in India, especially among women. Around 53.1% of Indian women are affected by IDA, which is indeed becoming a major public health issue.</p><p>Although India was the first country to launch the National Nutritional Anemia Prevention Program in 1970, IDA remains widespread. There are many reasons for the emergence of a wide range of IDA in India, namely, insufficient iron intake, poor iron absorption, increased iron demand during repeated pregnancy and lactation, insufficient iron reserve at birth, umbilical cord clamping time, and food supplementation.</p><p>Punjab is the Indian state facing the most severe condition regarding the prevalence of anaemia, despite this state being one of the main food producers of India. Taking Punjab as a case study we analysed to what extent it is possible to feed the Punjab population with an healthy (adequate in term of micronutrient) and sustainable diet. To this end, using data from National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) and projected population surveys, an estimation of iron requirement is calculated. Natural resources (i.e. land, water) used for current diet and the additional resources needed to sustainably feed the local population with a reference healthy planetary diet are evaluated.</p>

scholarly journals Integrated Management of Coastal Zones in Venezuela

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (Vol Esp. 2) ◽  
pp. 455-472
Author(s):  
Jose Ramón Delgado ◽  
Juan Carlos Fernández ◽  
Edgard Yerena
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Marine Areas ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective

In 1999, Venezuela began a Pilot Project for Coastal Marine Areas, establishing a Technical Unit in the now-defunct Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources. During the last 21 years, the foundations were laid for the Integrated Coastal Zones Management, approving a Coastal Zones Law in 2001 and developing a comprehensive Planning and Management Plan for Coastal Zones, concluded in 2014, which has not yet been approved. Even though, in practice, there is still no adequate institutional structure to attend to the integrated management of maritime and island spaces from a multidisciplinary perspective, these two instruments lay the foundations for the Integrated Coastal Zone Management and the development of Marine Spatial Planning. This paper seeks to analyze the reality of the management of coastal and marine zones in Venezuela during the last two decades (period 1999-2020), highlighting the initiatives developed to organize the necessary institutionality to execute the planning, zoning and integrated management processes that will promote the sustainability of coastal and marine spaces. The methodology used focuses on the analysis of the temporal evolution of the processes and instruments developed for the public management of the coastal and marine areas of the country.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE IN RELATION TO THE FINANCIAL ASPECT IN MANAGING COASTAL AREAS: MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zainora Asmawi ◽  
Lukman Hakim Mahamod ◽  
Mohd Zin Mohamed ◽  
Tuminah Paiman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Coastal Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Global Changes

Managing natural resources sustainably is essential in this contemporary era of land use planning system. This includes managing and planning the invaluable of coastal areas. In this regards, coastal management programmes have been regarded as a key approach in delivering the coastal strategies and objectives towards achieving a sustainable coastal development worldwide. This is supported by the good governance to ensure that the implementation of coastal development is successful. As such, this paper suggests that the aspect of good governance as one essential element of coastal management that can and should make a substantial contribution to planning and managing coastal land uses in Malaysia. It has many positive implications to the environmental, social and economic sectors. The experience of Lembaga Urus Air Selangor (LUAS) in managing the coastal areas via the implementation of good governance indicates the requirement of good governance in ensuring a successful coastal management. In addition, financial element has become a significant attribute in implementing coastal management initiatives. This study offers input in planning literatures by addressing the integration of coastal management, good local governance, land use planning and financial elements which are very relevant with today‘s current global changes on environment as a whole.

scholarly journals Protein crop production at the northern margin of farming: to boost or not to boost

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio ◽  
Jarkko K. Niemi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Ecological Services ◽  
Future Production ◽  
Protein Rich

Global changes in food demand resulting from population growth and more meat-intensive diets require an increase in global protein crop production, not least as climate change and increasing scarcity of fresh water could restrict future production. In contrast to many other regions, in Finland climate change could open new opportunities through enabling more diverse cropping systems. It is justified to re-enquire whether the extent and intensity of protein crop production are optimized, resources are used efficiently and sustainably, cropping systems are built to be resilient and whether ecological services that protein crops provide are utilized appropriately. This paper aims to analyze in a descriptive manner the biological grounds for sustainable intensification of protein crop production in Finland. Production security is considered by evaluating the effects of and likelihood for constraints typical for northern conditions, examining historical and recent crop failures and estimating ecosystem services that more extensive introduction of protein crops potentially provide for northern cropping systems now and in a changing climate. There is an evident potential to expand protein crop production sustainably to a couple of times its current area. In general, variability in protein yields tends to be higher for protein crops than spring cereals. Nevertheless, protein yield variability was not necessarily systematically higher for Finland, when compared with other European regions, as it was for cereals. Protein crops provide significant ecological services that further support their expanded production. By this means protein self-sufficiency remains unrealistic, but increased production of protein crops can be achieved. The expansion of rapeseed and legumes areas also seems to be economically feasible. From the economic viewpoint, an increase in domestic protein supply requires that farmers have economic incentives to a) cultivate protein-rich crops instead of cereals, and b) use them as animal feed instead of imported sources of protein. Environmental sustainability is an argument to justify economic support for protein-rich crops and thus increase their cultivation.

scholarly journals Is captive breeding a priority for manatee conservation in Mexico?

Oryx ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Ortega-Argueta ◽  
Delma Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Captive Breeding ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Aquatic Mammal ◽  
Policy And Strategy ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe Endangered Antillean manateeTrichechus manatus manatusis one of the most threatened aquatic mammal species in Mexico and the wider Caribbean region. The decline of this subspecies is mainly a result of historical exploitation and the impact of current coastal development. The conservation strategies adopted for the Antillean manatee include habitat protection, reduction of the most severe threats, and the rescue of stranded, orphaned or injured individuals and their management in captivity. This latter strategy has produced positive outcomes in some countries but has been the subject of controversy in others, including Mexico. We analyse the benefits and challenges associated with the management of captive manatees in Mexico, and the consequences of a lack of government policy and strategy for the post-rehabilitation release of individuals. We describe the evolution of this controversy from 1997–2017 in Mexico, analyse the consequences and implications for the conservation of the species, and propose an integrated management strategy that could address the issues raised. Although this strategy has been developed in the context of Mexico, it is applicable to management of this species across the Caribbean region.

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