Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 2020"

TL;DR: In early September 2019, dense crude oil began to wash the beaches of Brazil's tropical coast as mentioned in this paper, making this oil spill the most extensive and severe environmental disaster ever recorded in Brazilian history, in the South Atlantic basin and in tropical coastal regions worldwide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main policy instruments used by countries in West Africa are legislative SUP bans mostly on plastic grocery bags, while there are no provisions for re-useable alternatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the technical and political challenges of building trust and equity for various stakeholders are considered, and how blockchain technology is being leveraged to improve marine conservation and fisheries supply chain management globally.

TL;DR: An overview of global oyster aquaculture production at a country-scale, as well as factors influencing the observed trends is presented, which appears to be increasing demand for farmed oysters that producers are not able to exploit due to the supply side issues that have limited total production.

TL;DR: This study implicates marine policy formulation in relation to subsidies and investments, blockchain talent and knowledge acquisition, and workforce training and education to accelerate blockchain implementation in the maritime industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of a new CSR model of multinational oil companies (MOCs) on development of women in small-scale fisheries in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria was assessed.

TL;DR: Based on panel data of coastal regions in China from 2004 to 2017, the authors compares and analyses the dual effects of different types of marine environmental regulations on the upgrade of industrial structure in the manufacturing industry and polluting industry transfer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the effects of climate change on the ocean environment on fish stocks and fishers and suggest several potential changes in fisheries management policy to avert the growing risk of fisheries-related conflicts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the conceptual framework of evolutionary governance theory is deployed and extended to rethink the idea of coastal governance and the possibilities of a coastal governance better adapted to challenges of climate change and intensified use of both land and sea.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the relevance of IPLCs on islands, coasts and beyond to the governance of the global ocean commons, and make a case for their essential and beneficial inclusion in it.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined the nonlinear effects of per capita gross ocean product (GOP) and marine patents on marine pollution as represented by the quantity of industrial wastewater discharged directly into the sea and found that the increase in per capita GOP strongly promoted marine pollution across the three phases of panel threshold model, but the degree of influence is gradually declining, implying that China is still located in the first half of the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC), before the peak.

TL;DR: In this article, an MRES index system was developed based on the pressure-state-response (PSR) model, and the AHP-entropy-based TOPSIS method was established to evaluate the MRES.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the economic performance of EU seabream and seabass companies in the period 2008-2016, by country and company size, using economic and financial data extracted from companies' annual accounts.

TL;DR: In this paper, several processes of mining-related activities were identified that can potentially affect the pelagic environment, and the guidance provided by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for baseline studies, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and monitoring in connection with prospecting and exploration of deep-sea mineral resources is reviewed in the light of potential threats to the pelagia ecosystem.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conservation planning algorithm was used to integrate 55 global data layers on ABNJ species diversity, habitat heterogeneity, benthic features, productivity, and fishing as a means for highlighting priority regions in ABNJ to be considered for spatial protection.

TL;DR: It is argued that broad quantitative impact assessments are important in guiding strategic and longer term responses and adaptations, but that these are made more useful when complemented with qualitative insights on people and place in the short-term.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how social networks among actors in the tourism sector have facilitated the evolution of self-organized institutions for governance on the island of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the current barriers to financial inclusion of small-scale fishing households such as limited financial capability and literacy, lack of assets for collateral, geographic distance from a financial institution and lack of formal identification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the decadal reassessment of groupers (family Epinephelidae), an important and valuable group of marine fishes subjected to high market demand and intense fishing effort, based on IUCN criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarise some of the key problems raised by previous EIA reviews, as well as examining several EIAs carried out in recent years for DSM, and highlight issues identified by management agencies.

TL;DR: Why cruise ships are more prone to an emergent epidemic is analyzed and requirements of international conventions and domestic laws on cruise ship sanitation and epidemic prevention are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the potential for this knowledge and the IPLCs holding such knowledge to be recognized by the international community in the development and implementation of an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ instrument), drawing on three main types of traditional knowledge of particular relevance to the BBNJ instrument.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined factors of global competitiveness of container ports as perceived by shipping lines, and two statistical methods were used to rank and group these factors: a Friedman test and a post-hoc analysis involving Least Significant Difference test.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of maritime transport in France on the domestic economy with respect to output and employment-inducing effects through an Input-Output approach is studied, whereas the same approach has been applied in the past to many other countries (Korea, Ireland, China, Spain …) having a significant maritime industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that zones should be suitably large (Recommendation 1) and have sufficient separation (R2) to allow for repeat monitoring of representative impacted and control sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) proposes a holistic approach to planning environmental management in the deep sea based on Strategic Environmental Goals and Objectives (SEGO).

TL;DR: The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), introduced in June 2008, was adopted to achieve a Good Environmental Status (GES) in the EU's marine waters and to protect resources of socio-economic interest as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A new way of capturing and visualising the diverse social dimensions of aquaculture is offered by testing the ability to operationalise a set of social dimensions based on categories and indicators put forward by the United Nations, using several case studies across the North Atlantic.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new UK Fisheries Policy that focuses on re-establishing the role of Maximum Sustainable Yield to set limits that enable the recovery of fish populations initiated during the COVID-19 era, ensuring that catch targets are set with the aim to maintain biomass at 120% of that which will achieve maximum sustainable yield.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors used a content analysis method and NVivo software to conduct a multidimensional empirical analysis on 51 marine ranching policy documents, and found that China's policy can be divided into three stages according to the time sequence: the initial stage, the slow development stage and the rapid development stage.