Africa, climate change, Coastal & Marine Environment, Ecosystems, fish and fisheries, food security, food webs, governance conditions, large marine ecosystem, lme, pollution, socioeconomic development, sustainable development, United States, Namibia, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean
Frontline Observations on Climate Change and Sustainability of Large Marine Ecosystems

The Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) approach recommends a baseline of information at the LME management scale on changing states of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance conditions. This information provides data to assess the extent of overfishing, nutrient over-enrichment, habitat loss, and warming in LMEs around the globe. Through the GEF’s Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis/Strategic Action Programme (TDA/SAP) approach, this LME data set can inform issue prioritization, strategic planning and adaptive management of LMEs towards sustainability. This volume is a key contribution to advancing LME management in a changing climate. The authors describe the impacts of climate change on LME sustainability in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the key role the GEF has played in mobilizing financial support crucial to developing countries committed to carrying forward an ecosystem based approach to sustain LME goods and services.

Link: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/Environment%20and%20Energy/Water%20and%20Ocean%20Govern...
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