Highlights:

• Tour de Coasts Survey
• FEC Session at SRI 2024 - Tour de Coasts
• Invitation to FEC Fellows Session 2024 on May 13th
• Future Earth's Pathways Autumn School 2024
• The 5th National Conference on Environmental Microplastic Pollution
• Listening to stakeholders: Development of water quality indicators for transitional environments using satellite data
• Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science
• Emerging climate threats to the Mississippi River Delta: Moving from restoration to adaptation
• FEC Academy Member, Prof. Tim Smith, Honored with Emeritus Professor Award by University of the Sunshine Coast
• New Book Release: Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs by Prof. Dr. Eric Wolanski
• Updates from FEC Affiliated Projects: Nunataryuk – Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socio-economic adaptation
• Updates from FEC Supported Networks: The Early Career Ocean Professionals Programme

The Pathways Autumn School aims to foster exchange of knowledge and learning through critical dialogue between early career researchers and senior researchers from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. It supports the urgent task of a more practical, inter- and transdisciplinary and inclusive approach to research capable of responding to interlinked environmental and social habitability challenges. By participating in the 5-day programme of workshops, keynote sessions and discussions, participants will be able to learn and reflect on how research can better contribute to creating conditions for a ‘good life’ for all on a habitable planet.

The 3rd edition of the Pathways Autumn School will take place from 25-29 November 2024 in Aussois, in the French Alps. It will gather 50 young researchers and senior researchers to share and reflect around the theme "Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet". Please find more information on the website, which is updated regularly.

Apply to take part in Future Earth's Pathways Autumn School 2024 (for early career researchers working in Europe). The call for applications is open for early career researchers working in Europe, and will close on May 22nd.

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The Fifth National Conference on Environmental Microplastic Pollution is scheduled to take place from June 2nd to 4th, 2024, in the picturesque river city of Wuhan.

Dr. Eirini Politi

Abstract

Transitional waters are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic pressures with water quality being a key worldwide issue relevant to human consumption, food production, industry, nature and recreation. Monitoring and maintaining good water quality are enshrined in European policy through the Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and pivotal to fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Remote sensing can provide useful, continuous and synoptic monitoring data and diagnostic tools, however, European Union Member States tend to follow different strategies for their individual reporting, leading to a strong need for tailored-made solutions that work across the continuum of reported water bodies. To address the above, user requirements were collected from interviews with users from 18 local and national stakeholder institutes/organisations in six European countries, leading to a selection of improved satellite-based water quality indicators for coastal and transitional environments. These indicators were developed based on new state-of-the-art remote sensing data and ensure compliance with user-specific monitoring requirements. The suite of remote sensing indicators ranges from those tailored to fulfil spatial planning and water resource management needs of industries and local authorities, to those that help to better understand ecosystem functioning and provide input to European Directives. They use estimates of total suspended matter and chlorophyll-a concentrations and include region-specific mean values, anomalies, percentiles, and trends, among others. A selection of these indicators and other multidisciplinary data were then integrated into a Social-Ecological System Vulnerability Index, aiming to showcase a framework that provides global overviews of transitional systems and highlights hotspots of vulnerability to climate change and other anthropogenic pressure. Here, we describe the approach we followed to maximise involvement of various types of user communities throughout the indicator co-development process, ensuring provision of processed information that meets their water quality assessment needs for water resource management. The co-developed indicators are also presented and discussed from a user perspective.

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Description

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Seven Volume Set is the most up-to-date reference work for system based coastal and estuarine ecosystem science and management. It addresses the big issues facing the estuaries and coastal zone; in particular how to best use multi- and inter-disciplinary science to ensure the sustainability of the environment. It focusses on the need to protect and maintain the natural functioning of the estuaries and coasts worldwide while delivering the ecosystem services from which society extract goods and benefits.

Structured chapters, written by leaders in the field, include reference lists and additional reading, copious diagrams, case-studies, and especially provide synthesis diagrams and conceptual models of complex issues. The Treatise covers both the natural and social sciences, serving a wide audience which ranges from undergraduate students to established researchers and practitioners. The work avoids autecological studies but focusses on inter-linked physical-chemical-biological-ecosystem processes and associated socio-economic issues in the coastal zone. It examines estuaries and coasts, and their interactions and feedbacks with humanity, from the inland catchment/river basin to the ocean shelf.

Prof. Dr. Mike Elliott

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The new edition builds on and expands the previous version with significant updates and a whole new section on Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems, covering the resistance and resilience of the estuaries, coasts and other transitional habitats to climate change, thereby determining changes and responses needed over the coming decades.

Prof. Dr. John Day

Summary

The Mississippi River Delta (MRD) is a global natural and economic asset and socio-economic hub with an extensive fishery, major petrochemical complexes, and the largest global commodity port. During the twentieth century, >25% of MRD coastal wetlands were lost. Climate forcings threatening the MRD include extreme precipitation, increasing river discharge, tropical cyclones, and sea-level rise exacerbated by subsidence. We outline adaptation strategies to enhance the sustainability of the MRD. These include defining defensive baselines, diverting river water into the deltaic plain, protecting the crucial river corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, strengthening protection for New Orleans, and sustaining the fishing industry. These strategies highlight potential challenges of existing “restoration” plans, which sometimes fail to address ongoing climate challenges. Management plans must be more adaptation focused. We offer suggestions for current restoration initiatives and put our findings into the context of global delta restoration.

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Updates from FEC Academy Members

Updates from FEC Affiliated Projects

Updates from FEC Supported Networks 

○ Day, J. W., Xu, Y. J., Keim, B. D., Brown, V. M., Giosan, L., Mann, M. E., & Stephens, J. R. (2024). Emerging climate threats to the Mississippi River Delta: Moving from restoration to adaptation. One Earth.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.001

○ Perillo, G.M.E., Piccolo, M.C., 2024. Global variability in estuaries and coastal settings. En: Whitfield, A.K., Elliott, M. (eds.) Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, 2nd Ed. Vol.1 18-24 Elsevier.

DOI 10.1016/B978-0-323-90798-9.00038-X

○ Perillo, G.M.E., Gao, S., Cuadrado, D.G., 2024. Tidal flats: geomorphology and dynamics. En: Uncles, R.J., Mitchell, S., French, J. (eds.) Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, 2nd Ed. Vol.2 809-842 Elsevier

DOI10.1016/B978-0-323-90798-9.00034-2

○ Politi, E., Brito, A. C., Gomes, M. R., Lebreton, C., & Falcini, F. (2024). Listening to stakeholders: Development of water quality indicators for transitional environments using satellite data. Ocean & Coastal Management, 253, 107140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107140

○ Wolanski, E., & Kingsford, M. J. (Eds.). (2024). Oceanographic processes of coral reefs: Physical and biological links in the Great Barrier Reef (2nd ed.). CRC Press.

https://www.routledge.com/Oceanographic-Processes-of-Coral-Reefs-Physical-and-Biological-Links-i/Kingsford-Wolanski/p/book/9781032340746

○ Alarcón Borges, R. Y., Pérez Montero, O., Tejera, R. G., Silveira, M. T. D., Montoya, J. C., Hernández Mestre, D., ... & Milanes, C. B. (2023). Legal Risk in the Management of Forest Cover in a River Basin San Juan, Cuba. Land, 12(4), 842. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040842

○  Alice Newton, Michele Mistri, Angel Pérez-Ruzafa and Sofia Reizopoulou. (2023). Editorial: Ecosystem services, biodiversity, and water quality in transitional ecosystems, Front. Ecol. Evol., Volume 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1136750

○  Baird, D., Elliott, M. (Editors-in-Chief), 2024. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Sciences, 2nd Edition, 7 Volumes, Elsevier, Academic Press, Hardback ISBN: 9780323907989, eBook ISBN: 9780323910422. https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780323910422/treatise-on-estuarine-and-coastal-science-second-edition

○  Baumann, L., Riechers, M., Celliers, L., & Ferse, S. C. (2023). Anticipating and transforming futures: a literature review on transdisciplinary coastal research in the Global South. Ecosystems and People, 19(1), 2288957. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2288957

○  Bezerra, Moisés & Goyanna, Felipe & Lacerda, Luiz. (2023). Risk assessment of human Hg exposure through consumption of fishery products in Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 189. 114713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114713

○  Botero, C. M., Palacios, M. A., Souza Filho, J. R., & Milanes, C. B. (2023). Beach litter in three South American countries: A baseline for restarting monitoring and cleaning after COVID-19 closure. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 191, 114915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114915

○  Brempong, E. K., Almar, R., Angnuureng, D. B., Mattah, P. A. D., Jayson-Quashigah, P.-N., Antwi-Agyakwa, K. T., & Charuka, B. (2023). Coastal Flooding Caused by Extreme Coastal Water Level at the World Heritage Historic Keta City (Ghana, West Africa). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(6), 1144. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse11061144

○ Brendel, Andrea & Ferrelli, Federico & Echeverria, María & Piccolo, Maria & Perillo, Gerardo. (2022). PROCESAMIENTO DE DATOS SATELITALES ÓPTICOS Y DE RADAR PARA LA DETECCIÓN DE CAMBIOS MORFOMÉTRICOS: EL CASO DE LA DESEMBOCADURA DEL RÍO SAUCE GRANDE (ARGENTINA). Caminhos de Geografia. 23. 85-94. https://doi.org/10.14393/RCG238658189 

○ Carmen E. Elrick-Barr, Julian Clifton, Michael Cuttler, Craig Perry, Abbie A. Rogers, Understanding coastal social values through citizen science: The example of Coastsnap in Western Australia, Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 238, 2023, 106563, ISSN 0964-5691, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106563

○  Castiglioni, Eduardo & Gaucher, Claudio & Perillo, Gerardo & Sial, Alcides. (2022). Marine deposits of the Chuy Formation (Late Pleistocene) and isostatic readjustments in the area of Laguna de Rocha (Uruguay). Agrociencia Uruguay. 26. https://doi.org/10.31285/AGRO.26.799

○  Celliers, Louis & Manez Costa, Maria & Rölfer, Lena & Aswani Canela, Shankar & Ferse, Sebastian. (2023). Social innovation that connects people to coasts in the Anthropocene. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures. 1. 1-22. 10.1017/cft.2023.12. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.12

○  Charuka, B., Angnuureng, D. B., Brempong, E. K., Agblorti, S. K., & Agyakwa, K. T. A. (2023). Assessment of the integrated coastal vulnerability index of Ghana toward future coastal infrastructure investment plans. Ocean & Coastal Management, 244, 106804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106804

○  Chen, Y., Deng, B., Zhang, G., Zhang, W., & Gao, S. (2023). Response of Shallow Gas‐Charged Holocene Deposits in the Yangtze Delta to Meter‐Scale Erosion Induced by Diminished Sediment Supply: Increasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(1), e2022JF006631. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006631

○  Cunha, J., Cabecinha, E., Villasante, S., Balbi, S., Elliott, M., Ramos, S., (2023) Defining hotspots and coldspots of regulating and maintenance ecosystem services is key to effective marine management – an assessment of a coastal-open sea gradient, Portugal. Ocean & Coastal Management, 245: 106876; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106876

○  Datta, Satabdi & Roy, Joyashree. (2022). Exploring adaptive capacity: Observations from the vulnerable human-coastal environmental system of the Bay of Bengal in India. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 1007780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1007780 

○  Davies-Vollum, K. S., Koomson, D., & Raha, D. (2024). Coastal lagoons of West Africa: a scoping study of environmental status and management challenges. Anthropocene Coasts, 7(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44218-024-00039-9

○  Davranche, A., Arzel, C., Pouzet, P., Carrasco, A. R., Lefebvre, G., Lague, D., ... & Poulin, B. (2023). A multi-sensor approach to monitor the ongoing restoration of edaphic conditions for salt marsh species facing sea level rise: An adaptive management case study in Camargue, France. Science of the Total Environment, 168289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168289

○  Day, J. W., Hall, C. A., Klitgaard, K., Gunn, J. D., Ko, J. Y., & Burger, J. R. (2023). The coming perfect storm: Diminishing sustainability of coastal human-natural systems in the Anthropocene. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 1, e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.23

○  de Oliveira, E.B., Newton, A. & Botero, C.M. Development of a management-based ranking of beaches. Anthropocene Coasts 7, 6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44218-024-00040-2

○  Elegbede, I. O., Lawal-Are, A., Oloyede, R., Sanni, R. O., Jolaosho, T. L., Goussanou, A., & Ngo-Massou, V. M. (2023). Proximate, minerals, carotenoid and trypsin inhibitor composition in the exoskeletons of seafood gastropods and their potentials for sustainable circular utilisation. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 13064. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38345-w

○  Elegbede, I., Lawal-Are, A., Favour, O. et al. Chemical compositions of bivalves shells: Anadara senilis, Crassostrea gasar, and Mytilus edulis and their potential for a sustainable circular economy. SN Appl. Sci. 5, 44 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05267-7

○  Elegbede, I., Zurba, M., Hameed, A., & Campbell, C. (2023). Gaps and Challenges in Harnessing the Benefits and Opportunities of Indigenous Certification for a Sustainable Communal Commercial Lobster Fishery. Environmental Management, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-023-01852-7

○  Elliott M. (2023). Marine Ecosystem Services and Integrated Management: "There's a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"!. Marine pollution bulletin, 193, 115177. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115177

○  Elliott, M., Borja, Á., & Cormier, R. (2023). Managing marine resources sustainably–Ecological, societal and governance connectivity, coherence and equivalence in complex marine transboundary regions. Ocean & Coastal Management, 245, 106875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106875

○  Elliott, M., Wither, A., (Eds.) (2024). Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries: Terms and Concepts. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Paperback ISBN: 9780443137525, eBook ISBN: 9780443137532, pp 371. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2022-0-00268-3

○  Elrick-Barr CE, Clifton J, Cuttler M, Perry C & Rogers AA (2023). Understanding coastal social values through citizen science: The example of Coastsnap in Western Australia. Ocean & Coastal Management, 238, 106563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106563

○  Elrick-Barr, C. E., Smith, T. F., & Thomsen, D. C. (2024). Is ‘hope’helpful or a hinderance? Implications for coastal governance. Ocean & Coastal Management, 248, 106953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106953

○  Feng, Y., Tu, C., Li, R., Wu, D., Yang, J., Xia, Y., ... & Luo, Y. (2023). A systematic review of the impacts of exposure to micro-and nano-plastics on human tissue accumulation and health. Eco-Environment & Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eehl.2023.08.002

○  Ferreira, A.C.; LACERDA LD, Rodrigues, J.V.; Bezerra, L.E.A. 2023. New contributions to mangrove restoration/rehabilitation protocols and practices. Forest Ecology & Management Journal 31, 89-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-022-09903-2

○  Foley, Aideen & Moncada, Stefano & Mycoo, Michelle & Nunn, Patrick & Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Verena & Evans, Christopher. (2022). Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.769 

○  Forero-López, A. D., Toniolo, M. A., Colombo, C. V., Rimondino, G. N., Cuadrado, D., Perillo, G. M. E., & Malanca, F. E. (2023). Marine microdebris pollution in sediments from three environmental coastal areas in the southwestern Argentine Atlantic. Science of The Total Environment, 169677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169677

○  Fragoso, C.; Gatts, P.V.; Di Benedittoa, A.P.; Martinelli, L.A.; LACERDA, L.D. & Rezende, C.E. 2023. Stable isotopes and Mercury as tools to depict aquatic food webs. Quimica Nova 46 (11) http://dx.doi.org/10.21577/0100-4042.20230125

○  Fu, C., Li, Y., Tu, C., Hu, J., Zeng, L., Qian, L., ... & Luo, Y. (2023). Dynamics of trace element enrichment in blue carbon ecosystems in relation to anthropogenic activities. Environment International, 180, 108232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108232

○  Fu, C., Li, Y., Zeng, L., Tu, C., Wang, X., Ma, H., ... & Luo, Y. (2024). Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17070. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17070

○  Gallo Velez, David & Restrepo, Juan & Newton, Alice. (2023). Assessment of the Magdalena River delta socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 10.3389/feart.2023.1058122. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1058122

○  Goyanna, F., Silva, G., Bezerra, M.F., LACERDA, L.D. 2023. Mercury in oceanic upper trophic level sharks and bony fishes - A systematic review. Environmental Pollution 318, 120821 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120821

○  Guzmán, D. H., Mier, R. L., Vergara, A., & Milanes, C. B. (2023). Marine protected areas in Colombia: A historical review of legal marine protection since the late 1960 s to 2023. Marine Policy, 155, 105726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105726

○  Harvey N & Smith TF, 2023, 'Key lessons from new perspectives on Australian coastal management', Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 239, 15 May 2023, 106581 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106581

○  Hawkins, S. J., Todd, P. A., Russell, B. D., Lemasson, A. J., Allcock, A. L., Byrne, M., ... & Swearer, S. E. (2023). Review of the Central and South Atlantic Shelf and Deep-Sea Benthos: Science, Policy, and Management. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review. Volume 61, 61, 127-218.

○  Huddleston, P., Smith, T. F., White, I., & Elrick-Barr, C. (2023). What influences the adaptive capacity of coastal critical infrastructure providers?. Urban Climate, 48, 101416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101416

○  Inguaggiato, S., Meng, Q., Mondal, E., Chen, Y.-X., LACERDA, L. D., eds. (2024). Reviews in geochemistry: 2022. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-8325-4261-3

○  LACERDA LD, Godoy, JMO, Gonçalves, R.A., Rocha, M.F. & Dutra, B.F. 2023. Metais em sedimentos de talude da Bacia Potiguar em área de exploração de petróleo e gás natural offshore, NE Brasil. Química Nova 46 (6), 54-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.21577/0100-4042.20170959

○ Lange, M., Cabana, D., Ebeling, A., Ebinghaus, R., Joerss, H., Rölfer, L., & Celliers, L. (2023). Climate-smart socially innovative tools and approaches for marine pollution science in support of sustainable development. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 1, E23. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.11

○  Laubenstein T, Smith TF, Hobday AJ, Pecl GT, Evans K, Fulton EA & O'Donnell T, 2023, 'Threats to Australia's oceans and coasts: a systematic review', Ocean & Coastal Management, 231 (published online 29 Oct 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106331

○  Lehuen, A., & Orvain, F. (2024). A cockle-induced bioturbation model and its impact on sediment erodibility: A meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 168936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168936

○  Li, Y., Fu, C., Hu, J., Zeng, L., Tu, C., & Luo, Y. (2023). Soil Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Stoichiometry and Fractions in Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Accumulation in Allochthonous-Dominated Habitats. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(14), 5913-5923. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00012

○  Li, Y., Fu, C., Wang, W., Zeng, L., Tu, C., & Luo, Y. (2023). An overlooked soil carbon pool in vegetated coastal ecosystems: National-scale assessment of soil organic carbon stocks in coastal shelter forests of China. Science of The Total Environment, 876, 162823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162823

○  Li, Yingjie & Robinson, Samuel & Nguyen, Lan & Liu, Jianguo. (2023). Satellite prediction of coastal hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Remote Sensing of Environment. 284. 113346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113346 

○  International Science Council, 2023. Global Sea-level Rise: ISC Policy Brief. Coordination: Seag, M., Contributors: Lebbe, T.B., Church, J., Colleoni, F., Elliott, M., Hinkel, J., Jacot des Combes, H., Mycoo, M., Naish, T., Post, J., Scobie, A., Stevance, A.S., Thomas, A., van de Wal, R., Webster, D.G. ISC Liaison to the UN System, International Science Council, 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75116, Paris, France. 

○  Mabon L and Kawabe M (2022) 'Bring Voices from the Coast into the Fukushima Treated Water Debate' PNAS 119 (45) e2205431119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205431119

○  Madhanagopal, D. (2023). Local Adaptation to Climate Change in South India: Challenges and the Future in the Tsunami-hit Coastal Regions. Taylor & Francis.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003187691

○  Mestanza-Ramón, C., Monar-Nuñez, J., Guala-Alulema, P., Montenegro-Zambrano, Y., Herrera-Chávez, R., Milanes, C. B., ... & Toledo-Villacís, M. (2023). A Review to Update the Protected Areas in Ecuador and an Analysis of Their Main Impacts and Conservation Strategies. Environments, 10(5), 79. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments10050079

○  Moura, V.L. & LACERDA, L.D. 2022. Mercury sources, emissions, distribution and bioavailability along an estuarine gradient under semiarid conditions in NE Brazil. International Journal of Pollution Research and Public Health 19, 17092 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijprph192417092

○  Mycoo, M. A., & Roopnarine, R. R. (2024). Water resource sustainability: Challenges, opportunities and research gaps in the English-speaking Caribbean Small Island Developing States. PLOS Water, 3(1), e0000222.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000222

○  Newton A, Mistri M, Pérez-Ruzafa A and Reizopoulou S (2023) Editorial: Ecosystem services, biodiversity, and water quality in transitional ecosystems. Front. Ecol. Evol. 11:1136750. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1136750

○  Ollivier, M. E. L., Newton, A., & Kelsey, H. (2023). Social-Ecological analysis of the eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, United States of America. Frontiers in Marine Science.

○  Pauli, Natasha & Clifton, Julian & Elrick-Barr, Carmen. (2023). Evaluating marine areas in Fiji. Nature Sustainability. 10.1038/s41893-023-01136-2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01136-2

○  Peng, Ya & Sengupta, Dhritiraj & Yuanqiang, Duan & Chunpeng, Chen & Tian, Bo. (2022). Accurate mapping of Chinese coastal aquaculture ponds using biophysical parameters based on Sentinel-2 time series images. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 181. 113901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113901 

○  Pereira CI, Botero CM, Ricaurte-Villota C, Coca O, Morales D, Cuker B, Milanes CB. Grounding the SHIELD Model for Tropical Coastal Environments. Sustainability. 2022; 14(19):12317. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912317

○  Perillo, G. M., Zilio, M. I., Tohme, F., & Piccolo, M. C. (2024). The free energy of an ecosystem: towards a measure of its inner value. Anthropocene Coasts, 7(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44218-024-00036-y

○  Pickering K, Pearce T, Manuel L, Doran B & Smith T, 2023, 'Socio-ecological challenges and food security in the 'salad bowl' of Fiji, Sigatoka Valley'. Regional Environmental Change, 23, 61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02059-6

○  Rodriguez CAB, LACERDA LD, Bezerra, MF. 2023. Pilot study of mercury distribution in the carapace of four species of sea turtles from Northeastern Brazil. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology 110, 99 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-023-03745-1

○  Rölfer, L., Abson, D. J., Costa, M. M., Rosendo, S., Smith, T. F., & Celliers, L. (2022). Leveraging governance performance to enhance climate resilience. Earth's Future, 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003012

○  Rölfer, Lena & Celliers, Louis & Abson, David. (2022). Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY. 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13244-270240 

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