scholarly journals ‘Anthropogenic Intensity’ and ‘Coastality’: Two new Spatial Indicators for Exploring & Monitoring the Coastal Areas, in the framework of Environmental Management

10.5772/10107 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kiousopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Spatial Indicators

scholarly journals Definición de Unidades Ambientales de Análisis (UAA): metodología socioeconómica para la zonificación ambiental de determinados ecosistemas marino-costeros

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Javier Ospino Sepulveda ◽  
Angela Cecilia López Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Ecosystem Size ◽  
Physical Information ◽  
Environmental Units

The purpose of environmental zoning is to improve environmental management and the sustainable management of the coastal and marine ecosystems. This zoning can be performed by using methods such as participative zoning, COLMIZC, and the method used in the Decision Support System (DSS) called “Software MARXAN”. The methods present advantages and disadvantages. However, they all require an input of detailed primary or secondary data, and biotic and physical information regarding the ecosystem. Thus, this study employs a method that was the result of the analysis of different methods, and that enables suitable environmental zoning of the marine-coastal ecosystem (e.g. mangroves, seagrasses, coral reef, etc.) without detailed biophysical information. Its main characteristic is the definition Environmental Units ofAnalysis (EUA), as units that have been considered as homogenous regions that can be defined from different aspects such as ecosystem size or distribution, and socioeconomic and cultural aspects (Ospino-Sepulveda et al., 2017b). Having defined the EUA, it is possible to map specific ecosystem and consider other important environmental elements, which sometimes are not considered important when using other methods. As a result of this work, 14 EUA were obtained in La Guajira and 14 EUA in Chocó for marine-coastal areas in the Colombian Caribbean. The application of socio-economic, socio-cultural and biotic criteria to EUA defined zones for protection, restoration, and development of sustainable economic activities. We hope that the method adopted in this work will, in the future, be considered as an alternative for the environmental zoning of ecosystems marine-coastal areas.

scholarly journals PROTECTION STRATEGIES FOR VULNERABLE COASTAL FEATURES

1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (1) ◽  
pp. 501-507
Author(s):  
Victor A. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Coastal Features

ABSTRACT In recognizing the potential for a moderate to large oil spill, it became apparent to the Department of Environmental Management that there was limited information as to which coastal areas were the most vulnerable to oil spills and about how one could protect these sites. To this end, the Department prepared the State of Rhode Island Oil Spill Contingency Guide, Protection Strategies for Vulnerable Coastal Features. This guide identifies 97 vulnerable coastal features and provides site-specific information for 53 of them. The paper is divided into three major sections that (1) explain the need for the guide, its objectives, and how it is to be used; (2) describe the organizational responsibilities, address containment and cleanup procedures and technology, outline the threat of an oil spill in Rhode Island, and describe the different shoreline types and their susceptibility to oil spills; and (3) presents examples of the site-specific information sheets and maps of the vulnerable coastal features in Rhode Island.

Underwater vehicles for environmental management in coastal areas

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ludvigsen ◽  
Terje Thorsnes ◽  
Roy E. Hansen ◽  
Asgeir J. Sorensen ◽  
Geir Johnsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Underwater Vehicles ◽  
Coastal Areas

Characterization and evolution of spearfishing in Madeira archipelago, Eastern Atlantic

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Roi Martínez-Escauriaza ◽  
Claudio Vieira ◽  
Lídia Gouveia ◽  
Nuno Gouveia ◽  
Margarida Hermida
Keyword(s):  
Fish Species ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Teleost Fishes ◽  
The North ◽  
Southeast Coast ◽  
Madeira Archipelago ◽  
First Time

Data obtained from licenses of spearfishers and surveys conducted in 2004 and 2017 allowed for the analysis, for the first time, of the practice of spearfishing in the Madeira archipelago. Only a small percentage of the population practices spearfishing, mostly local young men. Most of them practice the activity with a partner throughout most of the year and along most of the island's coastal areas, although preferentially along the North and Southeast coast. Results show how, in recent years, despite the population of spearfishers decreasing, the abundance in the annual catch potentially increased, probably due to the higher investment of time in this activity. It has been observed that many fishers complement their catches with manual collecting of invertebrates. Overall, 40 teleost fishes and also 4 crustaceans and 8 molluscs were identified. The most frequently captured fish species were parrotfish and white seabream, while limpets were the most collected invertebrates in both selected periods.

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