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Pacific Ocean : pollution prevention programme 2010-2014 : strategy and work plans

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Gilbert, Trevor

Talouli, Anthony

The Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL) mission is to protect public health, safety, environment and natural resources of the Pacific Islands from the effects of ship sourced marine pollution

A framework for social adaptation to climate change : sustaining tropical coastal communities and industries

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Marshall, N.A ... [et al.]

The estimated 500 million people who depend on coral reefs worldwide regularly contend with change (Wilkinson 2008). Whether it is the shifting demands of a global marketplace, political upheaval at the national level, shortage of local supplies such as fuel, or fickle weather, the resilience of reefdependent people is often put to the test (Cinner et al. 2009d; Hughes et al. 2005a). Despite this hard-earned resilience, coastal communities and reef-based industries are going to be challenged like never before as climate change exerts a multi-faceted influence (Howden et al. 2007; IPCC 2007). The scale and rate of environmental change driven by increases in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is unprecedented in human history, leading in the next few decades to significant and in many cases dramatic alterations in the availability and quality of ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reefs (IPCC 2007, Tonn, 2007, McClanahan et al. 2008)

Implementation of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate change (PACC) project: process, status and assessment

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Hay, John E.

This report presents an overview of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project, from inception to the present day. In addition to providing a baseline, the report also describes and comments on the arrangements, plans and ways forward for the Project.

Strategic environmental assessment and potential future shoreline impacts of the oil spill from WWII shipwreck Hoyo Maru Chuuk lagoon - Federated States of Micronesia

Island and Ocean Ecosystems, Waste Management and Pollution Control, BRB

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Gilbert, Rean Monfils

Gilbert, Trevor

Talouli, Anthony

Marine pollution is widely recognised as one of the four major threats to the worlds oceans, along with habitat destruction, over-exploitation of living marine resources and invasive marine species. Spills of oil and other chemicals into the marine environment, both from ships and land-based sources, is a significant source of pollution.

The dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise: evidence from multi-decadal analysis of island change in the central Pacific

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Kench, Paul S.

Webb, Arthur P.

Low-lying atoll islands are widely perceived to erode in response to measured and future sea level rise. Using historical aerial photography and satellite images this study presents the first quantitative analysis of physical changes in 27 atoll islands in the central Pacific over a 19 to 61 year period. This period of analysis corresponds with instrumental records that show a rate of sea level rise of 2.0 mm.y-1 in the Pacific. Results show that 86% of islands remained stable (43%) or increased in area (43%) over the timeframe of analysis. Largest decadal rates of increase in island area range between 0.1 to 5.6 hectares. Only 14% of study islands exhibited a net reduction in island area. Despite small net changes in area, islands exhibited larger gross changes. This was expressed as changes in the plan form configuration and position of islands on reef platforms. Modes of island change included: ocean shoreline displacement toward the lagoon; lagoon shoreline progradation; and, extension of the ends of elongate islands. Collectively these adjustments represent net lagoon ward migration of islands in 65% of cases. Results contradict existing paradigms of island response and have significant implications for the consideration of island stability under ongoing sea level rise in the central Pacific. First, islands are geomorphologically persistent features on atoll reef platforms and can increase in island area despite sea level change. Second; islands are dynamic landforms that undergo a range of physical adjustments in responses to changing boundary conditions, of which sea level is just one factor. Third, erosion of island shorelines must be reconsidered in the context of physical adjustments of the entire island shoreline as erosion may be balanced by progradation on other sectors of shorelines. Results indicate that the style and magnitude of geomorphic change will vary between islands. Therefore, Island nations must place a high priority on resolving the precise styles and rates of change that will occur over the next century and reconsider the implications for adaption.

Marine and coastal biodiversity in the tropical island Pacific region

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Maragos, James E ... [et al.]

Implications of Climate Change for Australia's National Reserve system: a preliminary assessmen

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Brown, Peter R.

Dunlop, Michael

Implications of climate change for Australia's National Reserve System: a preliminary assessment

Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Brown, P.R.

Dunlop, M.

Funding sources for NGO's (waste/environment)

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The APFED Showcase Programme aims to support projects that promote innovative policies, measures, and actions for sustainable development in the Asia?Pacific region. Every year APFED invites proposal submissions and 12 projects are selected as APFED Showcase projects. These innovative activities supported under the Showcase Programme will be shared among various stakeholders in the region through the APFED Good Practice Database.

La gestion du tourisme dans les AMP, no.6 : Rapports d'analyse thematique = 2nd part thematic analysis report - Managing tourism, no.6 : Thematic anlaysis report

Island and Ocean Ecosystems

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Clement, Thierry ...[et al.]

Tourism is recognized as one of the activities the most promising for protected areas . he can play both a positive role ( contribution funding to AMP , awareness tourists, maintaining landscapes ) and a negative role (Source of degradation and pollution, significant need for natural resources - water, food, space - cultural impact).

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