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Coastal area management in South Asia: a comparative perspective (Background Paper prepared for South Asia Workshop on Fisheries and Coastal Area Management, 26 September-1 October 1996, Madras, India) [PDF]

, 1996
Most of the world's fisheries and fishing communities are supported by coastal areas. Consequently, the well-being and future of the fishery sector depend on the health of the coastal ecosystem.
Sharma, Chandrika
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Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private sustainability fisheries certification has become increasingly popular over the past years as a new form of governance for fisheries in developing countries. The certification scheme is very promising because it offers benefits through market‐based incentives, including market access, social benefits by empowering fishers, and ...
Puspi Eko Wiranthi, Hilde M. Toonen, Peter Oosterveer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking sustainability: Exploring the benefits and challenges of implementing circular economy principles in the Maldives

Heritage and Sustainable Development
While circular economy offers a promising solution for issues in sustainability, this area remains unexplored in the context of Maldives. Hence, this paper explores the circular economy's complex environment, looking at its benefits, challenges, and ...
Aminath Shaznie, Aishath Sinaau, Aishath Waheeda, Fathimath Muna, Wong Hoo   +4 more
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Linking Health Financing to Oral Health Coverage and Disease Burden in SEARO Countries: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis of Country Level Data

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The Southeast Asian region of World Health Organization (SEARO) comprising 11 countries, that is Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor‐Leste is home to a quarter of the world's population where severe oral health disparities persist ...
Shashidhar Acharya, Manu Raj Mathur, Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla, Angela Brand   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound

Frontiers in Marine Science
The reproductive state of wild, free-swimming tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), was assessed using underwater ultrasonography at a diving site in Fuvahmulah, a Maldivian atoll within the central Indian Ocean.
James A. Sulikowski, Nathan Perisic, Arzucan Askin, Lennart Vossgaetter, Filippo Bocchi, Hamna Hussain Ali Didi, Ahmed Inah, Tatiana Ivanova   +7 more
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Exploring Digital Divide in the Maldives [PDF]

, 2010
The central role of ICT in development and its ethical implications have kept the longstanding discussions of the Digital Divide active in the international development and research communities, with new perspectives on how to measure and interpret this inequality. In this paper, we examine the nature of the Digital Divide in the Maldives - between the
Shareef, Mohamed, Ojo, Adegboyega, Janowski, Tomasz   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Leave No One Behind: Voices of Women, Adolescent Girls, Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Sanitation Workforce [PDF]

, 2016
This report summarizes the sanitation and hygiene hopes and aspirations of thousands of women and men of different ages and physical ability, across rural and urban areas in eight South Asian countries.

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Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago

Limnology and Oceanography, EarlyView.
Abstract Upwelling delivers key nutritional and energetic subsidies to coral reef communities that affect the growth, abundance, and ecology of organisms across trophic levels. However, the cross‐scale oceanographic and atmospheric drivers of localized upwelling on many reefs remain unresolved, limiting our ability to predict how climate change might ...
Danielle L. Spring, Michael D. Fox, J. A. Mattias Green, Robin Guillaume‐Castel, Zoe Jacobs, Ronan C. Roche, John R. Turner, Gareth J. Williams   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maldives Macroeconomic Forecasting: [PDF]

, 2020
This study aims to build an efficient small-scale macroeconomic forecasting tool for Maldives. Due to significant limitations in data availability, empirical economic modeling for the country can be problematic. To address data constraints and circumvent the “curse of dimensionality,” Bayesian vector autoregression estimations are utilized comprising ...
Anthony Baluga, Masato Nakane
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Evaluating methods for high‐resolution, national‐scale seagrass mapping in Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Marine habitat mapping using satellite imagery can provide baseline and monitoring data across large spatial scales and in remote locations globally. This study evaluates how key methodological choices influence the accuracy of open‐source (for non‐commercial use), cloud‐based satellite mapping workflows for seagrass meadows in the Maldives.
Matthew Floyd, Holly K. East, Andrew J. Suggitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source