Economic analysis is well suited to inform protected resources management in marine and coastal environments. The purpose of this review is to provide a connection between the challenges facing managers of marine protected resources and specific forms of economic analysis that can help address them. We identify and illustrate several common protected resources management challenges including scarcity

Worldwide, biological invasions remain an unrelenting environmental disaster. In the last years, the Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans, has become one of the most highly surveyed biological invasions in Western Atlantic Ocean. This predator fish has the potential to affect the invaded ecosystem due to its voracity, fast population growth, and strong competition with native fauna for resources

The high degree of uncertainty associated with the extent of future sea-level rise stems primarily from the potential mass loss of the Greenland and Antarctica ice-sheets. We explore the impact of this uncertainty on economic damage due to sea-level rise for 136 major coastal cities. We compare the probability distribution for damage under the assumption of no adaptation for two relative sea-level

Seaweed invasions have been plaguing coastal ecosystems in countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean since 2011. To protect their coastal fisheries and tourism, several countries in West Africa have adopted seaweed cleanup policies to periodically remove invasive seaweeds from the beach, but funding remains a challenge. We conducted a contingent valuation study in Ghana to understand the drivers of public

Ghost fishing, the ability of fishing equipment to continue to capture organisms even after it is no longer controlled, leads to serious marine impacts, including bycatch, which contributes to biodiversity loss. Insistent complaints from artisanal fisher in the state of Bahia, Brazil, concerning the impacts of nets lost or abandoned by fisher from other regions that operate in their traditional fishing

As competition increases, so does the need for a destination to differentiate itself. Blue Flag, a voluntary environmental certification, has been described as an effective marketing tool to communicate nature-based management to consumers. Does certification, however, influence the consumer's choice when choosing a destination? This study examined consumer's satisfaction of beach characteristics and

The characteristics and duration of the processes occurring from the design and designation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) to the effective implementation and renewal of its management plan were analysed in 234 MPAs from four countries in the North-east Atlantic Ocean (France, Portugal, Spain and England). These MPAs were managed by 118 plans and each one could be applied to between one and 11 MPAs

The viability of Mediterranean marine fisheries is increasingly under threat due to the low biological productivity of overexploited stocks, low economic performance of the fishing units, and offer of unattractive jobs, among other. This has resulted in a decrease of 30% in the number of fishing units active in European Union Mediterranean fisheries over the period 1995–2016. The detailed causes for

North Atlantic right whales (NARW) are one of the most endangered marine animals with a global population of ~400 individuals left. Recent climate-driven shifts in distribution have significantly increased their mortality risk from human activities. After twelve NARWs died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2017 from fishing gear entanglement and ship strikes, Canada adopted measures designed to decrease

Although attribute non-attendance (AN-A) in choice experiments (CEs) conducted in developed countries has received increasing attention, fewer researchers have studied this issue in developing countries. This paper presents a study on residents' willingness-to-pay (WTP) to dispose of Enteromorpha prolifera and restore damaged costal resources in Qingdao, China. Specifically, a five-level design of

Climate change-driven ocean acidification (OA) is causing rapid change to global ecosystems and poses a significant threat to marine life. However, predicting ecosystem effects remains highly uncertain and governance responses to OA are not yet forthcoming. Adaptive governance can provide a means to deal with this uncertainty and we consider its application to the polycentric governance of adaptation

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has been heralded as the key means of achieving a more integrated approach to marine use across sectors and spatial scales. Achieving greater integration and coherence in MSP governance arrangements is seen as a way to resolve current problems of marine governance (such as fragmentation) and address future resource demands in a sustainable way. However, there is a lack

Cultural heritage-specific research is scarce within the climate change literature and climate change policy documents, challenging climate adaptation efforts to minimize adverse impacts on cultural heritage. Engaging and assessing diverse stakeholders' values and integrating those with evidence-based knowledge is critical for timely, effective and transparent preservation and climate adaptation of

Portsmouth Harbour was used to investigate the effects of fresh water flow and water physio-chemical properties such as salinity on turbidity and dissolved oxygen within industrialised Macrotidal estuaries. Nine sites were selected within the harbour for field sampling and data collection based on their contrasting hydrodynamic environment and accessibility from land. Sediment, water samples and water

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are the non-material benefits obtained from natural ecosystems that contribute to human wellbeing through aesthetic and recreational experiences, and spiritual enrichment. While research on CES is rapidly increasing in line with growing recognition of important contributions to wellbeing, little is known about CES derived from estuaries: some of the most densely populated

There is increasing global concern that climate adaptation efforts are falling behind the increasing risks associated with climate change. A number of reviews have identified this general issue in multiple nations and jurisdictions. In Australia, it is argued here that adaptation of the coastal built environment is operating at two speeds: the two-speed adaptation economy. Large civil assets and facilities

Current climate change discourses have expressed fear that many coastal communities would be forced to relocate in the face of rising water levels. However, despite the frequency and intensity with which such messages are being broadcasted throughout the world's media, there is little actual evidence of any relocation actually taking place, even though there are a number of past examples of relative

Quantifying ecosystem goods and services can help evaluate policies aimed at protecting present and future generations from losing ecosystem benefits. Explicating and quantifying the relationships among risk factors, ecological structure and function, and delivery of ecosystem goods and services requires analytical methodologies that propagate uncertainties. The capabilities of Bayesian networks in

As climate change continues to impact New England's coastal ecosystems and their related fisheries, the need for measuring, projecting, interpreting, and applying those impacts for adaptive management is expanding. In New England, different types of formal and informal research efforts that involve collaboration between the fishing community and traditional university and government researchers continue

Coastal ecosystem goods and services (EGS) have steadily gained traction in the scientific literature over the last few decades, providing a wealth of information about underlying coastal habitat dependencies. This meta-analysis summarizes relationships between coastal habitats and final ecosystem goods and services (FEGS) users. Through a "weight of evidence" approach synthesizing information from

•This paper evaluates the implementation of the MSFD in the Adriatic Sea.•The MSFD is the first policy for marine complex adaptive systems in the EU.•Ecological and jurisdictional boundaries overlap and cross-border cooperation is low.•Integrative assessments of marine systems may be impossible to achieve.•Relative isolation of theoretical approaches and management practices.

Virtually every coastal country in the world is affected by harmful algal blooms (HABs, commonly called "red tides"). These phenomena are caused by blooms of microscopic algae. Some of these algae are toxic, and can lead to illness and death in humans, fish, seabirds, marine mammals, and other oceanic life, typically as a result of the transfer of toxins through the food web. Sometimes the direct release

In 1994, Xiamen municipality, one of China's four special economic zones, was authorized to make its own necessary local legislations. Since then, Xiamen local legislators have formulated a number of local regulations and rules regarding coastal and marine resource management, most of which preceded national legislation on the same topic, including several local legislations and were able to facilitate

Recognising that institutional analysis concerning ICM practice is not sufficient, and also assuming that paradigm shifts in an ICM system play a crucial role for the success of ICM practice, the paper conducts a case study of Xiamen. Dividing the development process of ICM operational modality into three stages (decentralised programs management, primary establishment of the ICM system, and a stable

This paper addresses key drivers and enabling conditions for implementing Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programs in Xiamen, China. The drivers for initiating and implementing ICM programs in Xiamen included a growing level of environmental awareness, multiple-use conflicts and the need for more integrated coastal and ocean governance, and a clear vision and leadership from the Xiamen Municipal

This study presents three case studies of integrating coastal ecosystem services' value into decision making in Xiamen under the integrated coastal management (ICM) framework. Xiamen's experiences show that integrating the values of ecosystem services into decision making can harmonize coastal economic development, environmental protection, and local stakeholders' concerns regarding preserving the

Capacity, financing and political will are three indispensable driving forces of sustainable development programmes. Xiamen initiated an Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programme in 1993 and has built a successful ICM model known as the ‘Xiamen Model’ which has served as the operational modality for application in other coastal areas in China. In this paper, the authors illustrate Xiamen's experiences

We develop a systematic approach for evaluating the trade-offs between different policies governing coastal land and sea area uses under an integrated coastal management (ICM) programme. The analytical framework includes multiple marine industry sectors (e.g., port, shipping and coastal tourism) as well as social and environmental sectors (e.g., employment and ecosystem services). The net benefit measure

Recent shoreline management efforts have extended the scope of management plan to address multi-stakeholders’ conflicts over the use of coastal resources and their preservation. As cell identification is a critical step towards the development of Shoreline Management Plan (SMP), this paper provides the needed evidence to justify its rationality using Longhai city as a testing site. The coastal zone

Xiamen has marked its integrated coastal management (ICM) practice as PEMSEA's demonstration site since the 1990s. However, the role of Marine Functional Zoning (MFZ) in ICM has not yet been fully explored even though the planning process has been highlighted in some literature on Xiamen ICM mode. To showcase the contribution of MFZ as a practical approach for Xiamen ICM, the five dimensions of integration