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Assessment and Monitoring of Large Marine Ecosystems

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Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems

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Abstract

A significant milestone in marine resource development was achieved in July 1992 with the adoption by a majority of coastal countries of follow-on actions to the United Nations’ Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The UNCED declarations on the ocean explicitly recommended that nations of the globe: (1) prevent, reduce, and control degradation of the marine environment so as to maintain and improve its life-support and productive capacities; (2) develop and increase the potential of marine living resources to meet human nutritional needs, as well as social, economic, and development goals; and (3) promote the integrated management and sustainable development of coastal areas and the marine environment. UNCED also recognized the general importance of capacity building, as well as the important linkage between monitoring and the achievement of marine resource development goals.

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    Kenneth Sherman & Donna A. Busch

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  1. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Blackwood Hall, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada

    David J. Rapport

  2. Soil and Sediment Quality Section, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, K1A 0H3, Canada

    Connie L. Gaudet (Ecosystem Conservation Directorate) (Ecosystem Conservation Directorate)

  3. Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, P. O. Box 601, Sheffield, S10 2UQ, UK

    Peter Calow

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Sherman, K., Busch, D.A. (1995). Assessment and Monitoring of Large Marine Ecosystems. In: Rapport, D.J., Gaudet, C.L., Calow, P. (eds) Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79464-3_24

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