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Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review
Coastal areas provide important ecological services to populations accessing, for example, tourism services, fisheries, minerals and petroleum. Coastal zones worldwide are exposed to multiple stressors that threaten the sustainability of receiving environments. Assessing the health of these valuable...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10059979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36977042 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11030277 |
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author | Tremblay, Louis A. Chariton, Anthony A. Li, Meng-Shuo Zhang, Yong Horiguchi, Toshihiro Ellis, Joanne I. |
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description | Coastal areas provide important ecological services to populations accessing, for example, tourism services, fisheries, minerals and petroleum. Coastal zones worldwide are exposed to multiple stressors that threaten the sustainability of receiving environments. Assessing the health of these valuable ecosystems remains a top priority for environmental managers to ensure the key stressor sources are identified and their impacts minimized. The objective of this review was to provide an overview of current coastal environmental monitoring frameworks in the Asia-Pacific region. This large geographical area includes many countries with a range of climate types, population densities and land uses. Traditionally, environmental monitoring frameworks have been based on chemical criteria set against guideline threshold levels. However, regulatory organizations are increasingly promoting the incorporation of biological effects-based data in their decision-making processes. Using a range of examples drawn from across the region, we provide a synthesis of the major approaches currently being applied to examine coastal health in China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, we discuss some of the challenges and investigate potential solutions for improving traditional lines of evidence, including the coordination of regional monitoring programs, the implementation of ecosystem-based management and the inclusion of indigenous knowledge and participatory processes in decision-making. |
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spelling | pubmed-100599792023-03-30 Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review Tremblay, Louis A. Chariton, Anthony A. Li, Meng-Shuo Zhang, Yong Horiguchi, Toshihiro Ellis, Joanne I. Toxics Review Coastal areas provide important ecological services to populations accessing, for example, tourism services, fisheries, minerals and petroleum. Coastal zones worldwide are exposed to multiple stressors that threaten the sustainability of receiving environments. Assessing the health of these valuable ecosystems remains a top priority for environmental managers to ensure the key stressor sources are identified and their impacts minimized. The objective of this review was to provide an overview of current coastal environmental monitoring frameworks in the Asia-Pacific region. This large geographical area includes many countries with a range of climate types, population densities and land uses. Traditionally, environmental monitoring frameworks have been based on chemical criteria set against guideline threshold levels. However, regulatory organizations are increasingly promoting the incorporation of biological effects-based data in their decision-making processes. Using a range of examples drawn from across the region, we provide a synthesis of the major approaches currently being applied to examine coastal health in China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, we discuss some of the challenges and investigate potential solutions for improving traditional lines of evidence, including the coordination of regional monitoring programs, the implementation of ecosystem-based management and the inclusion of indigenous knowledge and participatory processes in decision-making. MDPI 2023-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10059979/ /pubmed/36977042 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11030277 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Tremblay, Louis A. Chariton, Anthony A. Li, Meng-Shuo Zhang, Yong Horiguchi, Toshihiro Ellis, Joanne I. Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title | Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title_full | Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title_fullStr | Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title_short | Monitoring the Health of Coastal Environments in the Pacific Region—A Review |
title_sort | monitoring the health of coastal environments in the pacific region—a review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10059979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36977042 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11030277 |
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