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News and EventsMarine Spatial Planning: Methodologies, Environmental Issues and Current Trends
Marine Spatial Planning: Methodologies, Environmental Issues and Current Trends Editors: Dimitra Kitsiou & michael Karydis Department of Marine Sciences, School of the Environment, University of the Aegean, Levros, Greece As the demand for space availability in...
Building Industries at Sea: ‘Blue Growth’ and the New Maritime Economy
Building Industries at Sea: 'Blue Growth' and the New Maritime Economy Editors: Kate Johnson, Heriot Watt University, UK Gordon Dalton, University College Cork, Ireland Ian Masters, Swansea University, UK Throughout the world there is evidence of mounting interest...
A Blue Urban Agenda: Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Cities of Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States
by Mycoo, Michelle and Donovan, Michael G. Scientific Steering Committee member of Future Earth Coasts, and coordinator of the Caribbean Regional Engagement Partner Node at University of the West Indies, Michelle Mycoo is lead author of a new publication on...
Indicator System to support Coastal and Marine Management – A Baltic perspective | 30 May – 1 June 2017 | Cork, Ireland
Bringing the Baltic experience to Cork Last week, for the first time I had the opportunity to visit and explore the beautiful coastline of County Cork, Ireland. First of all, I was pretty surprised that Ireland’s seabed territory is one of the largest in Europe,...
A new synthesis of best practices in transdisciplinary science
Coastal vulnerability and freshwater security brochure from the first ever Belmont Forum Synthesis Workshop Future Earth Coasts and the Integration and Application Network released a synthesis of Belmont Forum projects addressing Coastal Vulnerability and...
You Can’t Eat Biodiversity: Agency and Irrational Norms in European Aquatic Environmental Law
You Can't Eat Biodiversity: Agency and Irrational Norms in European Aquatic Environmental Law Challenges in Sustainability | 2017 | Volume 5 | Issue 1 | Pages 43-51 Tim O'Higgins Policies of the European Union cover a range of social, environmental and economic...
ICAN – Best Practice Guide to Engage your Coastal Web Atlas User Community
Editors: Kathrin Kopke and Ned Dwyer The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is a community of practice of organizations, who have been meeting since 2006, to share experiences and to find common solutions to Coastal Web Atlas (CWA) development. ICAN is a...
China: a tale of two cities
Beijing is a large bustling city of great dichotomies: the ancient and modern, the opulence and frugality, the imagery and simplicity. In contrast Yantai, as a smaller coastal city an hour’s flight south-east of Beijing, offers open space and arable lands...
Future Earth Coasts International Project Office
Future Earth Coasts is hosted by the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI) coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, Ireland with researcher groups located across 6 academic institutions across Ireland working with 45...
Oceans, Seas & Coasts in UN Sustainable Development Goals
The relevance of coasts to SDG Goal 14 Oceans, seas and coastal areas form an integrated and essential component of the Earth’s ecosystem and are critical to sustainable development. Coasts are the place where the connection between people and their prosperity with...