The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem report
Subtitle: a perspective on changing conditions in LMEs of the world's regional seas
By: edited by Kenneth Sherman, Gotthilf Hempel
Contributors: Hempel, Gotthilf
Series: UNEP Regional seas report and studies -- no. 182; Regional seas -- no. 182.
Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nairobe, Kenya
Language: eng
Number of pages: 872
Subjects: Marine resources conservation; International cooperation; Ecosystem health; Marine ecosystem management; Fishery policy; Sustainable fisheries; International Fishery management; Marine ecology; Climatic changes; Environmental indicators
Other titles: Perspective on changing conditions in LMEs of the world's regional seas
Description: The world's coastal ocean waters continue to be degraded by unsustainable fishing practices, habitat degradation, eutrophication, toxic pollution, aerosol contamination, and emerging diseases. Against this background is a growing recognition among world leaders that positive actions are required on the part of governments and civil society to redress global environmental and resource degradation with actions to recover depleted fish populations, restore degraded habitats and reduce coastal pollution.  No single international organization has been empowered to monitor and assess the changing states of coastal ecosystems on a global scale, and to reconcile the needs of individual nations to those of the community of nations for taking appropriate mitigation and management actions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Perspectives on regional seas and the large marine ecosystem approach; title: Fisheries in large marine ecosystems: descriptions and diagnoses; title: Accelerated warming and emergenet trends in fisheries biomass yields of the world's large marine ecosystesm; title: Land-based sources of nutrients to large marine ecosystems; title: LMEs and regional seas; title: West and central Africa; title: Eastern Africa; title: Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; title: Mediterranean; title: Black Sea; title: ROPME sea area; title: South Asian seas; title: East Asian seas; title: Pacific (SPREP); title: North-west Pacific; title: Arctic; title: Baltic Sea; title: North-east Atlantic; title: North-east Pacific; title: Wider Caribbean; title: South-west Atlantic; title: South-east Pacific; title: Antarctic; title: LMEs outside regional sea areas; title: West Greenland Shelf LME; title: Newfoundland Labrodor Shelf LME; title: Scotian Shelf LME; title: North U.S. Continental Shelf LME; title: Hudson Bay LME; title: Insular Pacific-Hawaiian LME; title: Southwest Australia LME.