Information & Meetings
	Conferences & Events
	New Coastal Publications
	Courses

Organisations
	New hyperlinks to websites

Development & Trends
	Intensive fishing threatens ocean ecosystems, concludes AAAS meeting
	Climate change cannot be stopped this century

Policy
	Social Committee highlights coastal management in future CFP
	England's first World Heritage Site: Dorset & East Devon coast

Events recently announded

Please note:
The overview of the Coastal Guide conference and event  meeting list can be found at http://www.coastalguide.org/meetings/
 

New Coastal Publications
 
 

Evaluation of the implementation of the 1988 Ministerial Declaration regarding nutrient load reductions in the Baltic Sea catchment area By Ain Lääne, Heikki Pitkänen, Berit Arheimer, Horst Behrendt, Waldemar Jarosinski, Sarmite Lucane, Karin Pachel, Antti Räike, Alexander Shekhovtsov, Lars M. Svendsen and Simonas Valatka, 2002. The Finnish Environment 524, p. 195. ISBN 952-11-1032-5 (PDF), URN:ISBN 9521110317. The publication is available also in printed form ISBN 952-11-1031-7 (nid.). Download from http://www.vyh.fi/eng/orginfo/publica/electro/fe524/fe524.htm The report summarises the results of a HELCOM project that investigated discharges and losses of the key nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus from 1987 to 1995, showing that measures to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus discharges have fallen short of their aims in most cases.

Decoding Cyanide: an Assessment of Gaps in Cyanide Regulation at Mines By Robert E. Moran; to be downloaded from http://www.hnutiduha.cz/publikace/studie/kyanidova_studie.pdf Community groups and NGOs in Europe and the United States issued this report that exposes the danger of unregulated cyanide compound releases from mines into the (often aquatic) environment. It reveals that current government and industry regulations and procedures fail to test for many of these potentially toxic agents. The report was provided to the European Union (EU) Commission as input for its February 22 Brussels meeting on cyanide leach mining. The report is also intended to inform the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) as UNEP develops its own code for cyanide based mining.

Littoral 2000: Responsible Coastal Zone Management By Antonieta Požar-Domac (ed.) (2000, 727 pp). Periodicum Biologorum, Vol 102, Supplement 1. ISSN 0031 5362. This publication contains the proceedings of the LITTORAL 2000 conference. The issues vary from endangered species protection to economic instruments for coastal zone development and from management methods for different coastal areas to legal aspects and socio-economics.

Aquaculture and its role in integrated coastal zone management By G. Burnell et al. (2001, 145 pp.). European Aquaculture Society, Slijkensesteenweg 4, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium. Fax + 32 59 321005, www.easonline.org. Price 29.75 euro (EAS/WAS members) or 32.23 euro (others). This book contains the presentations at the International Workshop, Oostende, Belgium, April 2001. The main objective of the workshop was to provide and disseminate improved information on aquaculture and its relationship with other coastal resources users to help producers, stakeholders, policy makers, planners, researchers and managers in developing best ICZM practice for the aquaculture, through a trans-disciplinary approach.

Heritage of the Russian Arctic By B.S. Ebbinge et al. (200, 640 pp.). Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, Division of International Nature Management, P.O.Box 20401, 2500EK the Hague, the Netherlands. ISBN 5 88621 057 1. The Arctic is a region with the most severe natural conditions and one of the most sparsely populated in the world. It is the global importance of the Arctic that elicits permanent and ever-growing interest in scientists from different countries throughout the world. This book contains the proceedings of the International Scientific Willem Barents Memorial Arctic Conservation Symposium, Moscow, Russia, March 1998, and presents the result of investigations carried out by a large international body of scientists.

Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

Medcoast Institute 2002: Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea from 3-17 September 2002, will take place in Dalyan along the Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a comprehensive hands-on training program on integrated coastal management specific to the needs of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The Institute includes one-week long fieldwork carried out on a sailing boat along the Aegean coast in addition to dynamic in-class teaching. The training program is targeted at professionals holding mid-managerial positions in their central governments and being responsible for planning and execution of programs or projects on coastal and marine issues. The other groups of interest are employees of coastal municipalities, non-governmental environmental organisations, universities and research centres. Deadline for application is 20 June 2002.
More information on http://www.medcoast.org.tr/mci2002/index.html

New hyperlinks to websites

The eSeFDee Marine Sciences Portal for the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean: http://www.dvz.be/Portal
Links to:
* the web sites of over 600 international organisations, whose field of operation includes the North Atlantic and/or the Mediterranean.
* major oceanography and marine sciences portals.
* taxonomical web sites and databases.
* key documents on (marine) biota, the (marine) environment, living marine resources and related issues.
* online marine scientific journals.

NOKIS North- and Baltic Sea Coastal Information System
http://nokis.baw.de
Metadata information system for coastal research and engineering

Check out the other Website Links on the Coastal Guide
 

Intensive fishing threatens ocean ecosystems, concludes AAAS meeting

New studies presented as this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting give new evidence that modern intensive deep-sea fishing is destroying the whole ocean ecosystem and leading to a collapse of fish stocks. According to an article in the Financial Times of February 18, the productivity of the ocean is six times less then 50 years ago, but fishing efforts have increased three times. The new tendency to overexploit deeper waters is a consequence of the depletion of shallow waters, the traditional fishing grounds. Scientists warn that a total collapse of the ocean ecosystem can only be prevented by cutting fishing fleets, end subsidies for industrial fishing, and establish marine reserves. An even bleaker outlook is published by the New Scientist of 23 February. It reports on a new study from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada, which reveals that the North Atlantic cod my never recover from overfishing as the population dynamics of the species have been damaged too severely.
For the complete FT article, visit http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3AFKY9TXC

Climate change cannot be stopped this century

Current climate models that indicate the general nature of climate change for the next 100 to 200 years show, that the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) that have been released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels last for at least 100 years. That means that any reductions in CO2 over this period will not result in a cleaner atmosphere and less global warming than we see today for at least a century. These were the conclusions of a scientist of the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, presented at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on February 17 in Boston. Despite differences in climate model projections and the limitations of the models themselves, scientists agree that significant consequences from global warming will occur in this century. "The only way to stop the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is to reduce CO2 emissions to 20 to 30 percent of today's levels," the scientist said. "This may require a similar reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels."
For more information, visit http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/WWWorld.html

Social Committee highlights coastal management in future CFP

The Official Journal of the European Communities just published the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the "Green Paper on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy". The Committee stresses that "a truly integrated policy requires the adoption and implementation of a policy for the management of coastal areas. The Committee supports the efforts being made to implement a European strategy for coastal zone management; this strategy should also address the concerns of the fisheries sector. Here too it is important to ensure that human activities do not disrupt the environmental balance." It favours the development of eco-labelling schemes that provide consumers with a guarantee that a product is wholesome and has been caught according the rules but asks for caution as it thinks that the scheme is not sufficiently developed. The Committee furthermore endorses the plan to give special treatment to small-scale inshore fishing, the backbone of coastal areas.
The Opinion can be found on http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/2002/c_03620020208en.html

England's first World Heritage Site: Dorset & East Devon coast

The Dorset & East Devon Coast is now officially England's first World Heritage Site. UNESCO's World Heritage Committee announced the decision on 13 December 2001. The Jurassic Coast, as it is being branded, has been awarded the status due to its outstanding geology, which offers a glimpse into the Earth's ancient past, with a complete record through 185 million years of earth history during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of geological time. Also contained within this coast are a number of fossil localities and features such as landslides, Chesil Beach and impressive cliffs. This unique combination of features, contained in a beautiful and largely accessible coastline, forms the basis for the World Heritage Site accolade. World Heritage Site status recognises a truly global importance for the Jurassic Coast and underlines the significance of maintaining its unspoilt beauty for future generations. There are expected to be opportunities for the development of sensitive and well managed out of season tourism, which will spread the visitor season and offer significant economic benefits.
For further information, please log onto www.jurassiccoast.com. E-mail contact: t.badman@dorset-cc.gov.uk

Deadline for submitting contributions to Coastal Guide News No 5: 6 March, 2002

COASTAL GUIDE NEWS is a biweekly newsletter published by the European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC) with financial support of Stichting DOEN, the foundation of the Dutch lottery "Postcode Loterij" and the Department of International Nature Affairs of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries. For free subscriptions, comments or contributions to this newsletter, please contact news@coastalguide.org. 

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