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The imminent dangers due to increasing anthropogenic stress on the coastal seas, as well as marine pollution in the Anthropocene, have highlighted the need to devise and adopt novel eco-sustainable solutions through the use of technology for India. Special emphasis on the use of scientifically derived marine fishery advisories (MFAs) can have multiple co-benefits with the utilization of nature-based solutions (NbS) for monitoring and management of coastal and marine resource bases. Such co-management options can be effective to realize the targets for Sustainable Development Goals 14 (SDG 14) for 2030. At present, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) provides the MFAs on a daily basis by using a combination of data from satellite imageries and ground-based datasets. However, sustainable use of marine and coastal ecosystems services needs to be informed by appropriate technological models of resources usage, including the incorporation of coastal zone management plans as per NbS frameworks for achieving long-term successes. The present study highlights the need to adopt NbS and MFAs as co-management approaches for adaptation and/or mitigation of the impacts of climatic and environmental factors as well as for fostering sustainable fishing initiatives for the Bay of Bengal. Such integrative methodologies are crucial for the development of model-based policy frameworks for sustainable marine resources management. Accordingly, an assessment of the NbS techniques for deriving a new adaptive framework is presented and discussed in the context of consideration of MFAs as NbS Assisting Technologies (NAT) to obtain significant co-benefits for sustainable development.
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The authors wish to thank Prof. Shailesh Nayak, Director, NIAS Bengaluru, and Prof. S. Ayyappan, Chancellor, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, and Chairman, Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, Bengaluru, for inspiration to study the current gaps in policy-based research for coastal and marine environments in India. The authors are grateful to Prof. R. Srikanth, NIAS Bangalore, for his encouragement to do socially relevant research. The authors are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for reviewing the manuscript and for providing suggestions to improve the same. SKK acknowledges the PhD Fellowship provided by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, vide Grant No. MoES/16/15/11-RDEAS (NIAS) awarded to the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka. HS acknowledges the use of Turnitin Software provided by NIAS Bangalore for similarity checking for the present paper.
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Santhanam, H., Kundu, S.K. (2022). Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for Sustainable Development of the Resource Base and Ecosystem Services of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems of India. In: Dhyani, S., Basu, M., Santhanam, H., Dasgupta, R. (eds) Blue-Green Infrastructure Across Asian Countries. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7128-9_15
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