[Coral-List] New report: Managing the growing impacts of development on fragile coastal and marine ecosystems - Lessons from the Gulf

[vanLavieren, Hanneke]

Dear coral-listers,

"Managing the growing impacts of development on fragile coastal and
marine ecosystems - Lessons from the Gulf'' is a policy report recently
published by the United Nations University's Canadian based Institute
for Water, Environment and Health (UNU INWEH). This 82 page report
discusses how coastal development and other human impacts are
compromising a valuable and unique marine ecosystem in the Persian Gulf
that is shared by eight countries - Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. The report recommends
possible steps to be taken to build a region-wide, coordinated
management program and suggests that one or more bordering nation(s)
provide leadership to build a 'made-in-the-Gulf-region' solution that
could be an example for other coastal regions in the world. The report
is available for free download at:
http://www.inweh.unu.edu/Coastal/Publications/Policyreport_Lessonsfromth
eGulf.pdf
<http://www.inweh.unu.edu/Coastal/Publications/Policyreport_Lessonsfromt
heGulf.pdf> 

 

Regards,

 

Hanneke Van Lavieren

Programme Officer, Coastal Zones

United Nations University 

Institute for Water, Environment & Health (UNU-INWEH)

175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204

Hamilton, ON  L8P OA1

CANADA 

Tel: +1 905 667 5511

Tel: +1 905 667 5494 (direct)

Fax: +1 905 667 5510

E-mail:  vanlav at inweh.unu.edu <mailto:vanlav at inweh.unu.edu> 

Skype username: hanneke.van.lavieren

UNU-INWEH at http://www.inweh.unu.edu
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