Showing papers in "Ocean & Coastal Management in 2020"

TL;DR: The evaluation criteria and methodology can provide a theoretical reference for the development of coastal management and offshore wind power and to improve the benefits of integrated coastal management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the risk of coastal erosion in Cartagena city, Colombia, by calculating the Hazard and Vulnerability Indexes, which together constitute the Coastal Erosion Risk Index.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a systematic review protocol of 50 articles published between 2008 and 2018 to assess the evidence about the interplay among coastal well-being and ecosystem services and find that empirical research has fallen behind theoretical development in five key areas: 1) geographic diversity; 2) disaggregated data; 3) temporal dynamics; 4) co-production; 5) uncertainty of outcomes.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors characterized China's blue carbon habitats, examined their changes since 1950 along with the drivers of changes, and considered the expansion of seaweed aquaculture and how this may be managed to become an emerging blue carbon resource in China, along with engineering solutions required to enhance its potential.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed policies, legislation, plans and management frameworks intended to protect seagrass meadows in 20 case-studies with the aim of identifying critical gaps.

TL;DR: In this paper, an index of physical vulnerability to sea level rise and marine floods was designed and applied over the coast of the Ravenna Province (Italy), a low-lying coastal area historically known as being susceptible to coastal flooding and erosion.

TL;DR: In this paper, an indicator-based approach was developed to assess social vulnerability to sea-level rise and flooding in Bandar Abbas city coastal district, southern Iran, using MCDM and fuzzy AHP models.

TL;DR: A review of scientific and grey literature (including governmental documents and media coverage) as discussed by the authors reconstructs the timeline of single-use plastic bags in Chile, including the development of the plastic industry and retail business within Chile, the introduction, spread and finally the demise of SUPBs.

TL;DR: A catalogue of anomalously large waves (rogue or freak waves) occurred in the World Ocean during 2011-2018 reported in mass media sources and scientific literature has been compiled and analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the distribution of mangrove forests based on occurrence data of the most emblematic and representative Mangrove species in Mozambique (Avicennia marina and Rhizophora mucronata) was compared with the potential distribution of these species.

TL;DR: In this article, an improved cross-efficiency model incorporating undesirable outputs is proposed, which can simultaneously consider self-appraisal and peer-appRAisal, and the model extends the traditional cross efficiency method by introducing undesirable outputs in a governance framework.

TL;DR: Based on the study of the relationship between ecological environment quality and socio-economic development, the authors proposed the Coastal Resource-environmental Carrying Capacity (CRECC) which including three subsystems (the Resource's system, the Ecological system, and the Socio-economical system), as well as 6 first-level indices and 20 s-level indicators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed geospatial techniques to assess ecosystem health of Densu Delta, Sakumo II and Muni-Pomadze Ramsar Sites over a 32-year period using structure, function and resilience indicators.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of decision support tools applied to decommissioning, with a focus on the oil and gas sector and on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of semi-structured survey of fishers in Cantilan and Mati and eight focus groups were used for data analysis to answer the question: "What are the perceived impacts of climate change on small scale fisheries in relation to fishing communities in eastern Mindanao?"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a geographic information system (GIS)-based approach to evaluate the spatial heterogeneities of coastal risk using typhoons as a case, and employed several spatial statistics-based distributional models to systematically evaluate the geographies of typhoon risk, its spatial patterns, and statistically significant hotspots of highest risk in coastal Mainland China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how the implementation of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is undermining the long-term food and economic security of highly vulnerable regions such as West and Central Africa.

TL;DR: The Ocean & Coastal Management Journal proposed a set of related articles in an virtual special issue on "Vulnerability Assessments as a Tool for the Coastal and Marine Hazards Management" as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A decision-tree classifier using Landsat data derived from the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform was utilized to automatically identify large-scale aquaculture ponds in Jiangsu Province through seven time slices between 1988 and 2018.

TL;DR: A framework for extracting aquaculture ponds is proposed by integrating existing multi-source remote sensing data on the Google Earth Engine platform and has a good performance in detecting non-intensive Aquaculture pond areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential impacts of climate change on small pelagic fisheries in the Pemba Channel and identified the key challenges for small pelagics in coastal nations heavily dependent on living marine resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature to select 51 adaptation measures that are potentially applicable to the Aquitaine coast was conducted and the results were analyzed taking each criterion independently and also through a multi-criteria analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the impact of uncertainty on economic damage due to sea-level rise for 136 major coastal cities and compare the probability distribution for damage under the assumption of no adaptation for two relative sea level projections: the RCP 8.5 scenario from the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and a high-end scenario that incorporates expert opinion on additional ice-sheet melting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated whale ecosystem services using the Common International Classification Ecosystem Services (CICES) framework and found that cultural services are the most common type of ecosystem services and the most suitable approach for the respective valuation of each service depends on the local socio-cultural context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the abundance, composition and sources of marine litter stranded on five beaches located at the bay of Durres and the Bay of Lalzi in Albania during April 2018, a total of 3,321 marine litter items were collected, classified and recorded.

TL;DR: The Mediterranean Sea is one of the areas in the world most affected by marine litter, and the harmful effects of plastic litter on Mediterranean biodiversity and a three-fold assessment approach to detect impacts with the use of bioindicator species was discussed at the SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting.

TL;DR: In this article, an assessment tool, which links marine ecosystem components, functions and services, and graphically represents the assessment process and its results, is presented, which can be used to assess the impacts of environmental degradation in terms of ecosystem service supply.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided an estimation of economic benefits from both direct and indirect use of Saint Martin's Coral Island resources, one of the ecologically critical areas (ECAs) of Bangladesh.

TL;DR: In this paper, the marginal reef paradox is introduced, which states that despite the resilience to thermal stress, the marginal reefs are not refugia to other reef ecosystems owing to their vulnerability and because these reefs significantly differ from their tropical counterparts.

TL;DR: A compilation of all beach nourishment projects conducted along mainland Portugal was made, totalizing 134 interventions up until 2017 as mentioned in this paper, and the objectives, type of deposition, borrow area, responsible entities and geographic distribution of each intervention were identified and discussed.