Changing Socio-Economic Conditions in the Hamilton Harbour (Ontario) Area: Implications for Harbour Remediation
The 1987 Protocol amending the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978 called for the preparation of Remedial Action Plans for forty-two Areas of Concern (typically polluted harbours...
Commercial, Recreational Uses and Economic Benefits of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: A Preliminary Assessment
This paper addresses commercial, recreational uses and economic benefits of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary to the local economies of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and...
Focus Towards Partnership?Saguenay Marine Park Joint Management Test Case
This paper presents the recent trends in parks' establishment in Canada. It focusses on the Saguenay Marine Park where Government of Canada and Government of Quebec have joined...
Kuala Selangor Nature Park?A Conservation Effort in the Coastal Zone
The Kuala Selangor Nature Park is a landmark in the history of conservation of Malaysia. It is the first time in this country, that a State Government, i.e. Selangor and the Malayan Nature...
Marine Minerals Investigation in the Mid-Pacific Area; An Example of State and Federal Government Cooperation
For the past six years, representatives of the Federal government and the State of Hawaii have joined together to investigate marine cobalt-rich manganese crust occurrences in the U. S....
Heavy Minerals and Aggregates Developments Nearshore Nova Scotia, Canada
This paper highlights past to present nearshore Scotian Shelf heavy mineral and aggregate exploration activities and findings. Promising sites for heavy minerals, gold and extensive sand...
Coastal Zone Management, National Implementable Plan and Policy Development?A Case Study of Phuket Island
The Thailand Coastal Resources Management Project (CRMP) had been applied to Thailand since 1986 with aim to strengthen the Thai's capabilities in managing an integrated coastal...
Saving What's Left of Tourism Development at Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
The tourism industry in Phuket, southern Thailand has grown without direction or control since everyone, local or foreign, wants a bit of the pie. Patong, the most popular beach on the...
A National Coral Reef Management Strategy for Thailand
The National Coral Reef Management Strategy is a policy reform initiative of the Thailand Coastal Resources Management Project (CRMP). The objective of the CRMP is to develop national...
What Future for Phuket?
Phuket Island is a key demonstration site for formulating Thailand's coastal resources policies. In its first two years in Phuket, reported at CZ89, the Thailand Coastal Resources...
Anaheim Bay Wetland Restoration and Enhancement?An Overview
The Port of Long Beach has completed a 116-acre wetland restoration project at the National Wildlife Refuge in Seal Beach, California. Construction required more than ten months and involved...
The Physical Evolution of a Wetland Restoration
Since European colonization, San Francisco Bay has lost 95 percent of its original wetlands. The success of recent efforts to restore wetlands throughout California and the U.S. cannot...
OCS Oil and Gas Off South Florida?Developing a Consensus on the Facts
Drilling for oil and gas in the area north of the Florida Keys has been a contentious issue over the last several years. To help provide an understanding of the effects of exploration...
Physical-Chemical Evaluation of Rainwater as an Indicator of Atmospheric Pollution in Some Zones of the City of Maracaibo, Venezuela
This study provided an evaluation of the presence of pollutants in the air over the City of Maracaibo by means of a physical-chemical analysis of rainwater collected in four zones of the...
New Directions for NOAA/NS&T Program: Historical Reconstruction of Sediment Contamination Using Dated Cores
Sediment cores sampled in coastal and estuarine areas can be used to reconstruct historical trends in sediment contamination. The sediment cores have to be undisturbed in order to obtain...
Contaminants in Mussel Tissues from U.S. Coastal Waters
Findings are presented from analyses of mollusks collected from sites along the East and West Coasts of the United States, from 1986 through 1989, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Responses of Benthic Macrofauna to Phaseout of Sewage Sludge Disposal in the Inner New York Bight
From 1924 through 1987, sewage sludge was dumped at the '12 mile site' 22 km off northern New Jersey in the inner New York Bight. Inputs in the early 1980s were,...
Halifax Harbour Clean Up?A Research Perspective
The status of scientific research pertaining to the marine environmental aspects of the discharge of sewage effluent into Halifax Harbour, Canada is reviewed. The background to the local...
Numerical Simulation of Larval Dispersal and Recruitment to Coral Reefs from the Mainstream Water Circulation
Coral reef systems, such as the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, are characterized by populations of fish and invertebrates that, mostly, produce offspring as pelagic larvae. Although some...
Importance of the Surf Zone of Exposed Sandy Beaches for the Development of Juvenile
Sandy beaches dominate most of the tropical and temperate coastlines. Studies of nearshore ichthyofauna, in different regions of the world, have revealed the frequent occurrence of juvenile...
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