Strategic Management Of Marine Ecosystems

by Levner, Eugene; Linkov, Igor; Proth, Jean-Marie

• ISBN13: 9781402031571
• ISBN10: 1402031572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The demand for advanced management methods and tools for marine ecosystems is increasing worldwide. Today, many marine ecosystems are significantly affected by disastrous pollution from industrial, agricultural, municipal, transportation, and other anthropogenic sources. The issues of environmental integrity are especially acute in the Mediterranean and Red Sea basins, the cradle of modern civilization. The drying of the Dead Sea is one of the most vivid examples of environmental disintegration with severe negative consequences on the ecology, industry, and wildlife in the area. Strategic management and coordination of international remedial and restoration efforts is required to improve environmental conditions of marine ecosystems in the Middle East as well as in other areas.The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in Nice in October 2003 was designed to: (1) provide a discussion forum for the latest developments in the field of environmentally-conscious strategic management of marine environments, and (2) integrate expertise of ecologists, biologists, economists, and managers from European, American, Canadian, Russian, and Israeli organizations in developing a framework for strategic management of marine ecosystems. Papers in this book were submitted by the ASI lecturers and participants. In addition, several papers were invited from the leading scientists in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Chapter 1. Disturbance of Marine Ecosystems: Problems and Solutions	9	(84)
Meta-analysis of the radioactive pollution of the ocean	11	(18)
Alexey V. Yablokov
Marine protected areas: a tool for coastal areas management	29	(24)
C.F. Boudouresque, G. Cadiou, L. Le Diréac'h
Damage control in the coastal zone: improving water quality by harvesting aquaculture-derived nutrients	53	(12)
Dror L. Angel, Timor Katz, Noa Eden, Ehud Spanier, Kenny D. Black
A modular strategy for recovery and management of biomass yields in large marine ecosystems	65	(16)
Kenneth Sherman
Express methods of nondestructive control for physiological state of algae	81	(12)
T.V. Parshikova
Chapter 2. Modeling Approaches and Mathematical Foundations of Environmental Management	93	(74)
Strategic management of ecological systems: a supply chain perspective	95	(14)
E. Levner, J.-M. Proth
Modelling the environmental impacts of marine aquaculture	109	(18)
William Silvert
Addressing uncertainty in marine ecosystems modelling	127	(16)
Lyne Morissette
Environmental games and queue models	143	(16)
Charles S. Tapiero
Computational complexity of modeling ecosystems	159	(8)
Vladimir Naidenko, Inna Bouriako and Jean-Marie Proth
Chapter 3. Policy/Stakeholder Process in Marine Ecosystem Management	167	(92)
Performance metrics for oil spill response, recovery, and restoration: a critical review and agenda for research	169	(10)
T.P. Seager, I. Linkov, C. Cooper
The challenges to safety in the east mediterranean: mathematical modeling and risk management of marine ecosystems	179	(20)
K. Atoyev
Strategic management of marine ecosystems using whole-ecosystem simulation modelling: the back to the future' policy approach	199	(60)
Tony J. Pitcher, Cameron H. Ainsworth, Eny A. Buchary, Wai Lung Cheung, Robyn Forrest, Nigel Raggan, Hector Lozano, Telmo Morato and Lyne Morissette
Chapter 4. Management of Contaminated Sediments: Example of Integrated Management Approach	259	(54)
Towards using comparative risk assessment to manage contaminated sediments	261	(10)
T. Bridges, G. Kiker, J. Cura, D. Apul, I. Linkov
Multi-criteria decision analysis: a framework for managing contaminated sediments	271	(28)
I. Linkov, S. Sahay, G. Kiker, T. Bridges, T.P. Seager
Barriers to adoption of novel environmental technologies: contaminated sediments	299	(14)
T.P. Seager, K.H. Gardner
Index of authors	313