Coastal zone and environment.

COMEMIS Coastal and Marine Environment Management Information System

The coastal environment has also been extensively damaged.

(iv) Coastline relocation programme for low income families construction of houses flats to relocate families living in the coastline area to provide them with a better living environment and improve the coastal environment

As long as the input of non degradable litter into the marine environment continues, the result will be increased quantities of marine litter in the coastal and marine environments.

(b) Information management in the North West Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) directory of coastal and marine experts and institutions bibliography on coastal and marine environments in the region and feasibility report on GIS applications in coastal marine environment for NOWPAP.

The implementation of cooperation plans to protect the Mediterranean environment, both coastal and marine, is therefore a priority.

UNEP, through its GRID facility at Arendal, is assisting the International Northern Sea Route Programme in 1996 with a coastal environmental information system which permits scientists and decision makers to evaluate both operational and accidental transit impact on the coastal environment.

UNEP, through GRID Arendal, continues to maintain a coastal environmental information system for the International Northern Sea Route Programme.

UNEP, through GRID Arendal, will continue to maintain a coastal environmental information system for the International Northern Sea Route Programme.

Solid waste management in the coastal strips is generally not covered by the national environment policy

Its major commercial applications included coastal zone and environmental monitoring, marine navigation, offshore oil and gas operation, natural disaster mitigation and coastal and deep ocean fishing.

408. The first Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area was signed in 1974 by the coastal States of the Baltic Sea at that time.

(f) Assessment of environmental sensitivity and proper land use of coastal urban areas.

Environmental and taxonomic study of economic fish along the Syrian coast.

It also looked at integrated coastal area and river basin management, which links freshwater and coastal and marine systems, highlighting land based sources of activities affecting the quality and uses of the coastal and marine environment.

The Programme of Action is the global mechanism aimed at addressing the linkages between freshwater and the coastal and marine environment and the significant impacts on human health, poverty alleviation and food security from the continued degradation of the coastal and marine environment.

The UNEP Regional Seas Programme, covering 17 regions around the world and more than 140 coastal States and territories, provides a framework for regional agreements and conventions and their related action plans to protect the coastal and marine environment.

447. Until now, the sources of information about the coastal environment were limited to ships, buoys and satellites.

As a follow up to the Cairo meeting, which adopted guiding principles for post tsunami reconstruction (see www.gpa.unep.org tsunami), UNEP will provide assistance to the affected countries in coastal zone management and in restoration of critical coastal ecosystems.

8. Considering the unique environment of the Caspian Sea and for the purpose of its protection, which is the responsibility of all littoral States, the two sides objected to any action that may cause irreparable damage to the environment of the Caspian Sea.

The major source of pollution of the marine environment is human activity on land, both in coastal areas and further inland.

The main area of cooperation is the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes in order to prevent coastal and marine pollution.

Municipal waste water discharges are one of the most significant threats to coastal environments worldwide.

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

These include assessments of marine litter as a land based pollutant and its impact on critical coastal and marine ecosystems.

The alarming UNEP report on marine debris only heightens our concern over the ever growing accumulation of non biodegradable debris in the marine and coastal environments.

The programme recognizes that uncontrolled and ill planned tourism significantly degrades the coastal environment.

In addition, in the context of the Cartagena Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, UNEP will respond to specific demands relating to the coastal and marine environment, waste, hazardous substances, land based sources of marine pollution, marine biodiversity and tourism related issues.

In that connection, UNEP and SPREP will work on a realistic and achievable work programme which will focus on regional seas, coastal degradation, land based sources of pollution, integrated watershed and coastal area management, waste management and promotion of the White Water to Blue Water Initiative, which is already being implemented in the Caribbean.

And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.

GRID Arendal also assists in the development of the coastal environmental information modelling system.

(a) Coastal and Marine Environmental Management Information System for the South China Sea area, covering Cambodia, southern China and Viet Nam

GIWA focused on environmental aspects of water, comprising surface and ground waters as well as coastal and marine waters.

Other applications were monitoring marine and coastal environments, agriculture, forestry, cartography, geology and exploration, telecommunications, utilities and planning.

383. Under the auspices of the Nairobi Convention, a project on the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis and Strategic Action Programme for the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean is being developed.

He noted that coastal zones are among the environments under most stress, yet offer important opportunities for economic development.

UNEP also cooperates with the FAO Regional Office for Africa, at Accra, in strengthening institutional capacities for developing coastal and marine environmental databases for some countries along the west African coast, such as Gambia, Ghana and Guinea.

(c) Coastal and marine resource issues should be addressed through the adoption of integrated coastal area management for the sustainable development of the marine environment and resources, including fisheries and aquaculture at the national and regional levels

The Parties to the Helsinki Convention adopted guidelines for sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism in the coastal zones of the Baltic Sea Area in 2000.

His Government had established a consultative board on the environment, and had engaged the services of six environment officers to deal with problems relating to protected species, biodiversity, air pollution, environmental and ecological zones and managing coastal zones.

397. The Action Plan for the Protection and Management of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the South Asian Regional Seas Programme was adopted in March 1995 and came into force in January 1998.

We have stressed in particular the importance of the mangrove system in buttressing coastal areas against environmental degradation.

Noting with grave concern the effects of the 2004 tsunami which threatens the livelihoods and environment of the coastal population and has had a negative impact on the Somali economy,

Marine environment and marine resources