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Oceans and Seas
The oceans cover three quarters of the world’s surface, but we have only just begun to comprehend the full significance of their ability to sustain both humans and the natural environment. It is increasingly clear that the marine environment plays a central role in supporting sustainable development, especially once we begin to identify the many areas which interact with the oceans and seas. This complex mix of coastal and marine interaction calls for a substantial increase in policies, resources and initiatives in order to better understand and enhance these systems. This paper concentrates principally on two key areas:
  • Unsustainable fisheries
  • Marine pollution and degradation

The paper seeks to chart current approaches for sustainably protecting and managing 

Briefing paper on Oceans and Seas - PDF format  

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Other Useful Resources...

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Issues

Coral reefs

Fisheries

Protected areas

Traditional knowledge

WSSD

Organisations

Academic Institutes and Information Resources

Business

International agencies

Regional agencies

Local authorities

Media

Trade Unions

Women

NGOs

Youth

Key International Agreements and Conventions

 

ISSUES

Coral reefs

  • Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2000. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 363 pp. Wilkinson, C.R. (ed. 2000)  http://www.reefbase.org  and http://www.aims.gov.au 

Fisheries  

  • Fishing for the Future. Governance for a Sustainable Future. Chapter 2.WHAT (2000)  http://www.earthsummit2002.org/governance 

  • The state of the world’s fisheries and aquaculture. What can we do about the Coming Food Crisis in the 21st Century? FAO (2000) http://www.fao.org/sof/sofia/index_en.htm

Protected areas

  • IUCN Marine and Coastal Protected Areas: A guide for planners and managers http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/mpaguid2.html 

Traditional knowledge

  • Indigenous Fishers’ Knowledge: Ownership, Predicaments and research. Isamu, T. (2002) Communication from Wise Coastal Practices for Sustainable Human Development. 15th January 2002. http://www.csiwisepractices.org enter USERNAME: csi and PASSWORD: wise

WSSD

  • Coverage of the Global Conference on Oceans and Coasts at Rio+10: Assessing Progress, Addressing Continuing and New Challenges, 3-7 DECEMBER 2001 IISD (2001) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS. IISD Volume 68, Number 01 2001. http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/sd/ocrio+10/ 

  • Global Conference on Oceans and Coasts at Rio+10 http://www.udel.edu/CMS/csmp/rio+10/ 

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ORGANISATIONS

Academic Institutes and information resources

  • The Center for the Study of Marine Policy (CSMP) http://www.udel.edu/CMS/csmp

  • ICLARM - The World Fish Centre http://www.iclarm.org/ 

  • International Ocean Institute http://www.ioinst.org/aboutioi.htm 

  • International geosphere Biosphere programme http://www.igbp.kva.se/cgi-bin/php/frameset.php 

  • Marine and Environmental Law Programme, Dalhousie Law School, Dalhousie University,Canada http://www.dal.ca/~wwwlaw/melp/index.html 

  • Reef base - provides access to data and information on coral reefs and associated shallow tropical habitats http://www.reefbase.org/ 

Business

  • The Maritime Group: a marine publishing group, serving over 50,000 readers worldwide http://www.marinelink.com/  

  • Marine transport http://logistics.about.com/cs/maritimeocean/index.htm

  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors http://www.padi.com/ 

International agencies

  • Food and Agricultural Organisation Fisheries Global Information System http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp 

  • UNDP Strategic Initiative for Ocean and Coastal Management http://www.sdnp.undp.org/siocam/ 

  • UNEP Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Activities http://www.gpa.unep.org/seas/seas.htm 

  • UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre: Marine habitats  http://www.unep-wcmc.org/habitats/marine.htm 

  • IOC-UNESCO GOOS: http://www.ioc.unesco.org/goos

  • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) http://www.ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/

  • International Maritime Organisation http://www.imo.org/index.htm (including conventions London, MARPOL etc)

Regional agencies

  • UNEP Regional Seas Programme http://www.unep.ch/seas 
  • PERSGA "The Regional Organisation for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden" http://www.persga.org/ 

Local Authorities

  • Sea Fish Industry Authority (UK) http://www.seafish.co.uk/ 

Media

  • Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/ 

  • Planet Ark http://www.planetark.org 

Trade Unions

  • International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) Seafarers http://www.itf.org.uk/seafarers/index.htm 

Women

  • Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO): www.wedo.org

  • Women exploring the ocean http://www.womenoceanographers.org/ 

  • Women fish traders http://www.ifad.org/gender/learning/sector/agriculture/26.htm 

  • Gender and food security: fisheries http://www.fao.org/Gender/en/fish-e.htm 

  • Telefood fund - fisheries project http://www.fao.org/food/tf2001/burkin-e.htm 

 

NGOs

  • Centre for Marine Conservation http://www.cmc-ocean.org 

  • Climate Action Network http://www.climatenetwork.org/ 

  • Coral Cay Conservation http://www.coralcay.org 

  • The Cousteau Society http://www.cousteau.org/

  • Earthwatch http://www.earthwatch.org/

  • Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/gcrmn/ and http://www.reefcheck.org/

  • Greenpeace - Ship activities http://www.greenpeace.org/ships.shtml

  • IUCN - http://www.iucn.org

  • The Marine Stewardship Council http://www.msc.org/

  • Ocean Futures http://www.oceanfutures.org

  • Seaweb http://www.seaweb.org

  • WWF http://www.panda.org

Youth

  • Cousteau's Dolphin Log http://www.dolphinlog.org/

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Key International Agreements and Conventions
  • Convention on Biological Diversity, including the Jakarta Mandate on the conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine and Coastal biodiversity and the Biosaftey Protocol http://www.cbd.org
  • Convention against the Illegal Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) http://www.cites.org
  • Convention on Migratory Species http://www.cms.org
  • Convention concerning the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) http://www.unesco.org/whc/
  • Convention for the Protection of Underwater Heritage http://www.unesco.org/culture/legalprotection/water/html_eng/convention.shtml
  • Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the Kyoto Protocol http://www.fccc.int
  • International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78) http://www.imo.org/Conventions/mainframe.asp?topic_id=260
  • RAMSAR Wetlands Convention http://www.ramsar.org
  • UNCED (1992) Chapter 17 and Rio Principles, 4th and 7 th Sessions of the UN CSD http://www.un.org/esa/susdev
  • UNCLOS (1994) a framework for all other marine related agreements, including the Agreement on Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish stocks http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm

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Last up-dated March 2002. 

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