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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
… Programme (UNEP), the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organization. The Centre has been in operation … Rita and Wilma caused much publicized and extensive damage to coastal areas. The numerous other tropical storms … fragments. Both processes are affected by the prevailing environmental conditions and by the extent of the damage. New …
Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management
… than it was a decade ago. Despite many international environmental treaties, declarations and other promises of … globally there is now a far greater appreciation of the environmental, economic, social, cultural and recreational … Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (Brussels), 973 UNTS 3; UKTS 106 (1975), Cmnd. 6183; 9 …
Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure
… coastal areas. The paper describes how recent advances in environmental economic concepts and methods provide an … required — moving from approaches which fail to factor in environmental costs and benefi ts, to those which recognise … the remainder by erosion control and buffer against storm damage. In Sri Lanka, the costs and damages arising from the …
Blue Carbon Policy Framework: Based on the discussion of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,000 government … and sustainable use, and provide disincentives to drain or damage coastal systems. A first effort to develop such a … working group consists of experts in coastal science, environmental policy and economics, and project …