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Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities

… confidence) Li et al., 2012 in Lionello, 2012 Coastal erosion Impacts on estuarine, beach and deltaic coastal … extremely vulnerable to water-level changes and to wave erosion during major storms (Boudouresque, 2004). Vermetid … sea-level rise can impact salt marshes through inundation, erosion, saltwater intrusion and landward migration of …
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Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa

… reasons : significant environmental deterioration (e.g., erosion following the cutting of mangroves) worsening … conserved at regional scale .... - - - - - - - - - - Erosion because of the opening of a new channel The local … of our eyes. Such observations generally occur when the “erosion” of biodiversity and ecological services has already …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… regulation, water purification, aquifer recharge and erosion control (Stolton & Dudley, 2010). By restoring … surrounding landscape in South Africa aims to reduce soil erosion, increase infiltration and reduce sedimentation of … with native, sod-forming wetland species, biodegradable erosion control fabric was installed, and a new highway …
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Marine protected areas and climate change - Adaptation and mitigation synergies, opportunities and challenges

… tourism, human health, marine biodiversity, coastal erosion, and small islands ecosystems. Promote cooperation … that society relies on such as food production, flood and erosion control, carbon storage, sequestration and water … as natural buffers to damage from severe storms, flood and erosion. For example, coral reefs reduce wave action, storm …
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Guidelines for applying protected area management categories

… islands and coastal land will be more vulnerable to erosion and loss of land and habitats as a result of … avalanche control, firebreaks, wind- breaks and erosion control; Forests managed primarily as a community … and transmitted through water (e.g., pollution, soil erosion and eutrophication). While all protected areas must …
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European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions

… provide highly valuable protection services against erosion and to- gether with pelagic ecosystems represent … and hydrodynamic conditions, rapid accretion and erosion processes Its 1,600 km long coastline is influenced … a coastal de- fence or green infrastructure reducing erosion, trap- ping sediments, stabilizing shorelines, …
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Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… and sewage discharged into the sea; defor- estation and erosion; low public awareness and education level on marine …
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Towards a Representative Network of Marine Protected Areas in Libya

… in the eastern part, caused by either karestic or marine erosion of the medium-elevated limestone coastline. The … shape and evolution, resulting from wind and marine erosion actions. The most extended Sebkhas are found in this …
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Croatia and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… to chemical agents and fertilizers used in agriculture, erosion of contaminated soil, run off from urban areas, … of the area. These sites represent “open wounds” and erosion hotbeds. For these reasons, it is difficult to …
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Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… level of services provided by these areas. Consequently, erosion, landslide and flooding processes and related risks … services (regulation of climate, mitigation of coastal erosion and absorbing/degrading of waste water and waste). …
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