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Browsing Miscellaneous Community Practices by Subject "Human activity"
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App D13.09 - Underwater noise baseline and modelling (Revision 1.0).
(Subacoustech Environmental Ltd, Bishops Waltham, UK, 2017)Horizon Nuclear Power (Horizon) intends to submit a separate Development Consent Order (DCO) and Marine Licence application for a new Nuclear Power Station on land adjacent to the Existing Power Station. The proposed ... -
An automated real-time vessel sound measurement system for calculating monopole source levels using a modified version of ANSI/ASA S12.64-2009.
(2016)Underwater noise from vessels permeates many of the world’s oceans. While vessel sound emissions are at levels typically below those that would be acutely injurious to marine fauna, this noise can interfere with normal ... -
Best Practice Guide for Underwater Particle Motion Measurement for Biological Applications.
(University of Exeter for the IOGP Marine Sound and Life Joint Industry Programme, Exeter, UK, 2021)The problem: All sound comprises fluctuations in pressure and particle motion (PM) and all fishes and many aquatic invertebrates detect PM. Noise is unwanted or harmful sound, and underwater anthropogenic noise is a global ... -
EMFF Benthic Impacts Decision Support Tool User Manual Version 4.0.
(Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, 2020)Bottom trawl fisheries impact sedimentary habitats to various degrees. It is difficult to determine whether a fishery is causing serious or irreversible harm to a habitat objectively. Marine protected areas are areas that ... -
Enabling local blue growth in developing countries: a thematic review.
(Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2021)Blue growth – the prospect of economic revenue and wellbeing from the sustainable use of ocean resources – has caught the interest of most coastal and island nations of the world, including many developing countries. The ... -
A Global Review of Cumulative Pressure and Impact Assessments in Marine Environments.
(2016)Ever more extensive use of marine space by human activities and greater demands for marine natural resources has led to increases in both duration and spatial extent of pressures on the marine environment. In parallel, the ... -
Guidance Note on the Application of Coastal Modelling for Small Island Developing States.
(National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK, 2020)Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are very diverse, but have something in common: they are all vulnerable to human-induced climate change, but have contributed very little to causing the problem, due to their small ... -
Handbook for interpreting types of marine habitat for the selection of sites to be included in the national inventories of natural sites of conservation interest.
(United Nations Environment Programme, Mediterranean Action Plan, Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (UNEP/MAP-RAC/SPA). [MedKey Habitats], Tunis, Tunisia, 2015)The Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean and the Action Plan for the protection of the marine environment and the sustainable development of Mediterranean coastal ... -
Inclusion of condition in natural capital assessments is critical to the implementation of marine nature-based solutions.
(2022)Current approaches to measure ecosystem services (ES) within natural capital (NC) and nature-based solutions (NbS) assessments are generally coarse, often using a single figure for ecosystem services (e.g., nutrient ... -
Lessons from a Marine Spatial Planning data management process for Ireland.
(2021)This paper presents a framework containing ten components to deliver a data management process for the storage and management of data used for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in Ireland. The work includes a data process ... -
The Missing Layers: Integrating Sociocultural Values Into Marine Spatial Planning.
(2021)Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a relatively new approach to ocean management and has been widely implemented worldwide. Ideally, MSP should be established as a public process that analyzes and distributes human activities ... -
The MPA Guide Decision Tree: Level of Protection, Version 1. (September, 2021).
(2021)Decision tree to determine the protection Level of Protection of an MPA, or zone within a multizone MPA, based on activities that are allowed or disallowed. Answers to questions in this decision tree lead sequentially to ... -
Net cuttings waste from fishing in the North-East Atlantic: best practices for mitigation. A report for OSPAR Action 36: to develop best practice in the fishing industry.
(KIMO International for Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Shetland, UK, 2020)The issue of pollution from waste net cuttings needs to be addressed. These small items, found in abundance on shores and in the marine environment, cause harm to marine wildlife through ingestion and entanglement and ...
