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Olegário Nelson Azevedo Pereira, Maria Rosário Bastos, José Carlos Ferreira and João Alveirinho Dias
This article explores the development of human occupation and the anthropogenic impacts at Costa da Caparica, a Portuguese coastal town that faces several challenges concerning coastal erosion processes. A historical long-term analysis was made, mainly t...
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Julieta Hernández-López, Omar Cervantes, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz and Rubén Ricardo Guzmán-Reyna
Coastal ecosystems are attractive sites for tourism. In the central Pacific coast of Mexico in the La Boquita coastal system (LBCS), consisting of a beach and a coastal lagoon, the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model was implemented for t...
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Rosa Molina, Giorgio Manno, Carlo Lo Re, Giorgio Anfuso and Giuseppe Ciraolo
Human occupation along coastal areas has been greatly increasing in recent decades and, in many places, human activities and infrastructures are threatened by erosion processes that can produce relevant economic and human losses. In order to reduce such ...
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Sukanya Sereenonchai and Noppol Arunrat
Coastal communities and small-scale fisheries are highly vulnerable to climate change. In this study, we aimed to examine fishers? decisions to adapt to climate change and their expectations for their children to pursue the same profession. Data were obt...
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Ting Xu, Baisha Weng, Denghua Yan, Kun Wang, Xiangnan Li, Wuxia Bi, Meng Li, Xiangjun Cheng and Yinxue Liu
The 2303 Wetlands of International Importance distribute unevenly in different continents. Europe owns the largest number of sites, while Africa has the largest area of sites. More than half of the sites are affected by three or four impact factors (55%)...
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Pedro Fraga-Santiago, Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti, Pablo Montero and Xose Lois Otero Pérez
Coastal lagoons are habitats of great environmental value. However, they are currently subject to major threats, particularly due to increasing sea levels. This study aims to identify changes?both natural and induced by anthropic activity?and their impac...
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Mónica Pérez-Ramírez, Marco A. Almendarez-Hernández, Gerzaín Avilés-Polanco and Luis F. Beltrán-Morales
Fish eco-labeling is a market-based incentive program for sustainable fisheries. This paper examines consumers? acceptance of eco-labeled fish by using data from a pilot study conducted in a coastal area of northwestern Mexico. An ordered probit model wa...
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Sandra Cortés Chavez
ÍndiceIntroducciónEl área de estudio y sus característicasCaracterísticas ambientales y evaluación de impactosCruce entre conflictos ambientales y la valoración del ecosistema en los instrumentos de PlanificaciónLos intrumentos de Planificación Territori...
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Gisele Girardi,Renata de Souza Cometti
Este artigo analisa alguns aspectos do uso de terra e da ocupação do litoral sul do estado do EspíritoSanto, Brasil, região composta por onze municípios, cinco dos quais incluídos na região metropolitanada Grande Vitória. Justifica, inicialmente, o recor...
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Naína Pierri,Rodolfo José Angulo,Maria Cristina de Souza,Minela K. Kim
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar as formas de ocupação e uso do litoral paranaense com foco naespecificidade costeira, trazendo os elementos descritivos fundamentais, mas tentando pesquisar algunsfatores condicionantes e explicativos, assim como perc...
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