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Environmental sub-regions in the Gulf of Mexico coastal zone: the ecosystem approach as an integrated management tool

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia; John W. Day

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
434 KB
Volume
47
Category
Article
ISSN
0964-5691

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✦ Synopsis

Ecological sub-regions are a way of viewing coastal zone (CZ) regions that have been developed to enhance the capability of NGOs, governmental organizations, and academics to assess conditions and trends of the major ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf), mainly as a management tool for defining priority actions towards sustainable development. Major ''geographical regions'' at scale-1-level (1:40) are: (a) the warm-temperate Gulf, (b) the tropical

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