Strategic Management Of Marine Ecosystems

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

• ISBN13: 9781402031588
• ISBN10: 1402031580
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Acknowledgements

Disturbance of Marine Ecosystems: Problems and Solutions

Meta-analysis of the radioactive pollution of the ocean

Marine protected areas: a tool for coastal areas management

Damage control in the coastal zone: improving water quality by harvesting aquaculture derived nutrients

A modular strategy for recovery and management of biomass yields in large marine ecosystems

Express methods of nondestructive control for physiological state of algae

Modeling Approaches and Mathematical Foundations of Environmental Management

Strategic management of ecological systems: a supply chain perspective

Modelling the environmental impacts of marine aquaculture

Adressing uncertainty in marine ecosystems modeling

Environmental games and queue models

Computational complexity of modeling ecosystems

Policy/Stakeholder Process in Marine Ecosystem Management

Performance metrics for oil spill response, recovery, and restoration: a critical review and agenda for research

The challenges to safety in the east mediterranean: mathematical modeling and risk management of marine ecosystems

Strategic management of marine ecosystems using whole-ecosystem simulation modelling: the G¼

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