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Using social resilience and resource dependency to increase the effectiveness of marine conservation initiatives in Salum, Egypt

Marshall, Nadine; Marshall, Paul; Abdulla, Ameer - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52 (2009) 7, pp. 901-918

The social and economic ramifications of marine conservation strategies such as marine protected areas (MPAs) are important to consider prior to their implementation to ensure that they do not exceed the resilience of resource-users and that resource protection might be maximised through...

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Environmental change and fishery management in the northern Persian Gulf

Esmaeili, Abdoulkarim - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52 (2009) 8, pp. 1071-1081

problems facing the Iranian fisheries are an uncertain availability of fish and over-fishing. The Persian Gulf is a sensitive … three to five years. Environmental factors have a major effect on fish stocks and fisheries in such a sensitive ecosystem … fish stocks in the northern Persian Gulf and estimates the maximum sustainable yields for fisheries management …

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Collaborative research on the improvement of irrigation operation and management: water quality investigations. Final report

International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1999

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Bringing Hambantota back to normal: a post-tsunami livelihoods needs assessment of Hambantota District in southern Sri Lanka

Anputhas, Markandu; Ariyaratne, B. Ranjith; Gamage, Nilantha - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2005

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Irrigation impacts assessment: an annotated bibliography of published literature on methods and findings

Sultana, Farhana; Bhattarai, Madhusudan - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004

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Le droit de la mer, régulateur des crises pour le contrôle des espaces et des ressources : quel poids pour des États en développement ?

Galletti, Florence - In: Mondes en développement n°154 (2011) 2, pp. 121-136

? disappears for the benefit of maritime States henceforth gathered with environmental or fisheries references rather than …

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The maritime potential of ASEAN economies

Evers, Hans-Dieter; Karim, Azhari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Countries may utilize a long coastline in relation to their landmass as a resource to develop their maritime economy. This paper argues that ASEAN countries differ in utilizing their maritime potential. As a basis for further comparative studies the Center for Policy Research and International...

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Measuring the maritime potential of nations. The CenPRIS ocean index, phase one (ASEAN)

Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...

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Biodiversity and Fisheries: a study case in the south coast of Portugal (Algarve)

Borges, Teresa; O’Dor, Ronald - Centro de Investigação sobre Espaços e … - 2010

Biodiversity is now one of the main concerns worldwide. With the increase of people on Earth and activities dangerous to the environment, like habitat destruction and overexploitation, species extinction rates rapidly increased, raising serious concerns for future biological diversity. Fishing...

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Accelerating Economic Growth and Reducing Poverty: The Road Ahead

eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance, Government of … - 2010

It outlines the broad framework and the strategy for poverty reduction based on four pillars: (a) accelerating economic growth while maintaining the macroeconomic stability; (b) improving the governance; (c) investing in human capital; and (d) targeting the poor and the vulnerable. The PRSP also...

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