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Marine and Coastal Resources

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

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Environmental resources; Fish resources; Ocean resources

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Legal and institutional borders, topographical classifications, and resource kinds are used to define marine coastal resources (Athanasiou et al., 2017). The land-and-seawater interface, also known as the land-and-seawater interface, is where these resources may be found. Between the tidal effect of terrestrial landscape and the coastal ecosystem, they are situated in the ocean and on the seabed. Some resources, on the other hand, can tolerate and flourish in semiterrestrial environments (Castro & Huber, 2007). Abiotic and biotic components coexist in marine and coastal ecosystems (Castro & Huber, 2007). Abiotic characteristics include all nonliving resources, while biotic features include a wide range of live resources that are important to people, such as finfish and shellfish. Fish, shrimp, crabs, lobsters, mollusks, reptiles, aquatic animals, and higher aquatic plants are examples of these. The majority...

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Elegbede, I. et al. (2023). Marine and Coastal Resources. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_304-1

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    Marine and Coastal Resources
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_304-2

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