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• ICZM-Best practice case study in the Bay of Luebeck
  ...out 2.5-3.0 meters above mean sea level (MSL) and are intensively built-up areas. One former lagoon still is occupied by a lake, in the other, marshes devel ==Initial problem==
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  ...(s), new downstream groynes were built, which shifted the lee side erosion problem even further downstream. ...astline. The result is that the erosion has been shifted to less resistant areas resulting in higher area losses per year.
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• Coves - artificial formation and use
  ...oughout the world and artificial pocket beaches are usually constructed in areas where natural beaches are fairly narrow or absent. These artificial pocket ...ep coastal profiles. This type of coast has a large [[littoral transport]] potential and is often exposed to [[erosion]] and will therefore in many cases alread
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• Shoreline management
  |definition=The act of dealing – in a planned way – with actual and potential coastal erosion and its relation to planned or existing development activit #To ensure that development activities do not occur in sensitive areas
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• DeCyDe for Sustainability Policy tool
  ...metimes lack of data. However, whilst nothing can be done about the former problem, the latter is minimised since DeCyDe-for-Sustainability is flexible and ro ...quality in the Baltic, North and Mediterranean Seas is still problematic. Potential new problems in the future relate to the development of wind and wave power
  25 KB (3,543 words) - 21:40, 7 August 2021
• Water Framework Directive
  ...reshwater, but also covers the coastal and transitional waters. In coastal areas, the WFD is in force up to one nautical mile from the territorial baseline ...atus", the environmental objective for HMWB and for AWB is good ecological potential (GEP), which has to be achieved by 2015.</P>
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• Environmental risk assessment of marine activities
  ...s related to marine activities and to marine and coastal [[ecosystems]] as potential receptor. Depending on the characteristics of the problem under review and the availability and form of data required, the annalist n
  36 KB (5,430 words) - 20:20, 18 September 2023
• Case study risk analysis of marine activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea
  ==Problem formulation and hazard identification== Release assessment is the identification of the potential of the risk source to introduce hazardous agents (oil and HNS) into the mar
  17 KB (2,600 words) - 21:25, 31 July 2019
• North Sea pollution from shipping: legal framework
  ...egated or dedicated ballast tanks. All ships (also fishing vessels) can be potential dischargers of oil residues and/or oil contaminated residues (bilge water). ...l areas more stringent discharge standards apply and ports bordering these areas have to supply sufficient receptions facilities.
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• Effect of climate change on coastline evolution
  ...ales described in the conceptual models of geomorphologists. An additional problem is that the type of model often used to bridge this gap, which is based on ...ted a marked increase in complexity of shore response to sea-level rise in areas where alongshore sediment transport was important, even observing some shor
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• Submarine groundwater discharge
  ...awater wedge is weak, it can be assumed that the interface between the two areas is sharp (Figure 1a). In such cases, during the winter period, the submarin ...cular diffusion a freshwater-seawater mixing zone is built between the two areas. The mixing causes the salt water in the deeper part of the aquifer to beco
  31 KB (4,626 words) - 12:46, 12 August 2021
• Measurements of biodiversity
  ...account other ecosystem features, such as trophic structure, reproductive potential, competitive interaction, etc., in combination with changes in physical and ...ling size and effort. Two species richness indices try to account for this problem:
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• Biodiversity in the European Seas
  ...ts of the sea makes it extremely productive and one of the most productive areas in the world, with a wide range of [[plankton]], fish, seabirds and benthic ...e Atlantic Ocean. The morphology of the sea floor is dominated by two deep areas on both sides of the Mid Atlantic Ridge with depths down to 5 000 m and a s
  26 KB (3,907 words) - 18:35, 21 February 2024
• Values of amenities in coastal zones
  ...The latter are divided into people that visit the coast or live in coastal areas but not in close proximity to the sea, and people that want to see the coas ...nal to the amenity value provided by the view itself. This study shows the potential for the use of [[Hedonic Evaluation Approach|hedonic analysis]] to further
  28 KB (4,449 words) - 22:00, 1 September 2020
• Marine Spatial Planning - the need for a common language
  ...as been placed on managing the multiple use of marine space, especially in areas where conflicts among users and the environment are already clear as, for e ...r protect marine [[biodiversity]], is through the delineation of protected areas in which human pressure is reduced or excluded. Today not only economic and
  36 KB (5,342 words) - 18:20, 16 February 2024
• Pollution prevention, detection and mitigation in European coastal waters
  ...n activities. There are many sources of nutrient runoffs : unsewered urban areas, construction sites, combustion of fossil fuels by traffic, industries and ...n is more restricted and limited to specific coastal and adjacent offshore areas, especially in the Adriatic, Gulf of Lion and northern Aegean Sea. The main
  26 KB (3,940 words) - 16:24, 20 February 2024
• Mariculture
  ...eygondeau G, Wabnitz CCC, Troell M, Cheung WWL (2018) Global estimation of areas with suitable environmental conditions for mariculture species. PLoS ONE 13 Mariculture can play an important role, especially in rural areas, for food security, economic and social welfare.
  46 KB (6,523 words) - 21:19, 21 August 2023
• Current status of public participation in ICZM
  ...olvement of stakeholders in steering groups for the re-arrangement of dune areas or nature reserves .... Sometimes federal, regional and local laws are needed to tackle just one problem. This makes public participation more complicated.
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• Effects of fisheries on marine biodiversity
  ...ic level]] of reported catches had declined over the years. For all marine areas, the trend has been a decline in the mean trophic level of the fisheries la ...on of sediment may affect the settlement and feeding of the biota in other areas<ref name="Jennings1998"/>. The effects of sediment resuspension include the
  33 KB (4,853 words) - 13:29, 1 February 2024
• Coastal Erosion along the Changjiang Deltaic Shoreline
  ...e recently become sites of serious environmental problems. One outstanding problem is the [[erosion]] of deltaic coasts. A major cause of such erosion is a de [[Coastal erosion]] has been a world-wide problem in recent decades. An estimate made by Bird shows that about 70% of the wor
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