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Good Systems Network Meeting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
You're viewing a past event from the Good Systems Grand Challenge team at The University of Texas at Austin that contains two presentations from May 19, 2020.Office of the VP for ...
Good Systems
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Achieving good environmental status in the Black Sea: scale mismatches in environmental management

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
The Black Sea has suffered severe environmental degradation. Governance of the Black Sea region is complex and results in a series of scale mismatches which constrain management.
Tim O'Higgins   +4 more
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Challenges of achieving Good Environmental Status in the Northeast Atlantic

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
The sustainable exploitation of marine ecosystem services is dependent on achieving and maintaining an adequate ecosystem state to prevent undue deterioration.
Karen A. Alexander   +12 more
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Scale matters: Efficiency assessment of EU environmental directives implementation in a local-scale management of protected wetlands in Poland [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 2013
Challenging impact of climate change to both human well-being and ecosystems was reported in numerous studies. In addition, protected areas of wetlands, which are maintained in agricultural purposes, often are exposed to climate-related management ...
BIEREŻNOJ -BAZILLE Urszula   +1 more
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Large-scale testing of phytoplankton diversity indices for environmental assessment in Mediterranean sub-regions (Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean Seas)

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
According to the methodological standards established by Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the assessment for the pelagic habitat under the Biodiversity Descriptor should be carried out at the regional or sub-regional level.
Janja Francé   +13 more
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SfM-Based Method to Assess Gorgonian Forests (Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria, Octocorallia))

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2018
Animal forests promote marine habitats morphological complexity and functioning. The red gorgonian, Paramuricea clavata, is a key structuring species of the Mediterranean coralligenous habitat and an indicator species of climate effects on habitat ...
Marco Palma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a new control rule for managing anthropogenic removals of protected, endangered or threatened species in marine ecosystems [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Human activities in the oceans are increasing and can result in additional mortality on many marine Protected, Endangered or Threatened Species (PETS).
Fanny Ouzoulias   +5 more
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Environmental Status and Geomorphological Characterisation of Seven Black Coral Forests on the Sardinian Continental Shelf (NW Mediterranean Sea)

open access: yesBiology, 2022
Marine animal forests are key mesophotic ecosystems that are under threat from increasing natural and human pressures. Despite the fact that various international agreements strive to preserve these fragile ecosystems, the environmental status of the ...
Davide Moccia   +6 more
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Methodological challenges in assessing the environmental status of a marine ecosystem: Case study of the Baltic Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Assessments of the environmental status of marine ecosystems are increasingly needed to inform management decisions and regulate human pressures to meet the objectives of environmental policies. This paper addresses some generic methodological challenges
Ojaveer, Henn   +5 more
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Detecting critical choke points for achieving Good Environmental Status in European seas

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
Choke points are social, cultural, political, institutional, or psychological obstructions of social-ecological systems that constrain progress toward an environmental objective.
Tavis Potts   +9 more
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