Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-7

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2. Disturbance of Marine Ecosystems: Problems and Solutions

   1. Meta-Analysis of the Radioactive Pollution of the Ocean

      • Alexey V. Yablokov

      Pages 11-27

   2. Marine Protected Areas: A Tool for Coastal Areas Management

      • C. F. Boudouresque, G. Cadiou, L. Le Diréac'h

      Pages 29-52

   3. Damage Control in the Coastal Zone: Improving Water Quality by Harvesting Aquaculture-Derived Nutrients

      • Dror L. Angel, Timor Katz, Noa Eden, Ehud Spanier, Kenny D. Black

      Pages 53-64

   4. A Modular Strategy for Recovery and Management of Biomass Yields in Large Marine Ecosystems

      • Kenneth Sherman

      Pages 65-80

   5. Express Methods of Nondestructive Control for Physiological State of Algae

      • T.V. Parshikova

      Pages 81-91

3. Modeling Approaches and Mathematical Foundations of Environmental Management

   1. Strategic Management of Ecological Systems: A Supply Chain Perspective

      • E. Levner, J.-M. Proth

      Pages 95-107

   2. Modelling the Environmental Impacts of Marine Aquaculture

      • William Silvert

      Pages 109-125

   3. Addressing Uncertainty in Marine Ecosystems Modelling

      • Lyne Morissette

      Pages 127-142

   4. Environmental Games and Queue Models

      • Charles S. Tapiero

      Pages 143-157

   5. Computational Complexity of Modeling Ecosystems

      • Vladimir Naidenko, Inna Bouriako, Jean.-Marie Proth

      Pages 159-166

4. Policy/Stakeholder Process in Marine Ecosystem Management

   1. Performance Metrics for Oil Spill Response, Recovery, and Restoration: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research

      • T.P. Seager, I. Linkov, C. Cooper

      Pages 169-177

   2. The Challenges to Safety in the East Mediterranean: Mathematical Modeling and Risk Management of Marine Ecosystems

      • K. Atoyev

      Pages 179-197

   3. Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems Using Whole-Ecosystem Simulation Modelling: The ‘Back to the Future’ Policy Approach

      • Tony J. Pitcher, Cameron H. Ainsworth, Eny A. Buchary, Wai lung Cheung, Robyn Forrest, Nigel Haggan et al.

      Pages 199-258

5. Management of Contaminated Sediments: Example of Integrated Management Approach

   1. Towards Using Comparative Risk Assessment to Manage Contaminated Sediments

      • T. Bridges, G. Kiker, J. Cura, D. Apul, I. Linkov

      Pages 261-269

   2. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Framework for Managing Contaminated Sediments

      • I. Linkov, S. Sahay, G. Kiker, T. Bridges, T.P. Seager

      Pages 271-297

   3. Barriers to Adoption of Novel Environmental Technologies: Contaminated Sediments

      • T.P. Seager, K.H. Gardner

      Pages 299-311

6. Back Matter

   Pages 313-313

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The demand for advanced management methods and tools for marine ecosystems is increasing worldwide. Today, many marine ecosystems are significantly affected by disastrous pollution from industrial, agricultural, municipal, transportational, and other anthropogenic sources. The issues of environmental integrity are especially acute in the Mediterranean and Red Sea basins, the cradle of modern civilization. The drying of the Dead Sea is one of the most vivid examples of environmental disintegration with severe negative consequences on the ecology, industry, and wildlife in the area. Strategic management and coordination of international remedial and restoration efforts is required to improve environmental conditions of marine ecosystems in the Middle East as well as in other areas. The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in Nice in October 2003 was designed to: (1) provide a discussion forum for the latest developments in the field of environmentally-conscious strategic management of marine environments, and (2) integrate expertise of ecologists, biologists, economists, and managers from European, American, Canadian, Russian, and Israeli organizations in developing a framework for strategic management of marine ecosystems. The ASI addressed the following issues: Key environmental management problems in exploited marine ecosystems; Measuring and monitoring of municipal, industrial, and agricultural effluents; Global contamination of seawaters and required remedial efforts; Supply Chain Management approach for strategic coastal zones management and planning; Development of environmentally friendly technologies for coastal zone development; Modeling for sustainable aquaculture; and Social, political, and economic challenges in marine ecosystem management.

• Ecology
• algae
• aquaculture
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• environmental management

• Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

  Eugene Levner

• Cambridge Environmental Inc., Cambridge, USA

  Igor Linkov

• INRIA, Metz, France

  Jean-Marie Proth

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