Information & Meetings
	What's new on the website
	European project CoastBase takes shape
	Conferences & Events
	New Coastal Publications
	Courses

Organisations
	New hyperlinks to websites

Environment
	Marine garbage costs millions
	Mass deaths of Caspian seals still a mystery
	GEO-3 on its way

What's new on the website

New texts and case studies in Dune Guide

The Dune Guide has been extended with 26 case studies on natural dune processes and management in relation to sea defence, among them:

• Management of wet dune slacks in the North-Holland Dune Reserve
• Mowing and sod removal in the ‘Zwanenwater’, North Holland
• Recreation and other human influence in the Meijendel dune area
• Nutrient input by the herring gull (Larus argentatus) on Mellum

• seashore dynamics, 
• sand mobility, 
• hydrology and water management, 
• conservation management, 
• management of forests, 
• management in relation to recreation and tourism. 

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
 
 

Macrobenthos van het NCP (Rapport Ecosysteemdoelen Noordzee) By H.J.Lindeboom ea. (2000, 65 pp.) NIOZ P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands, email: hanl@nioz.nl  ISSN 0923 3210 Price: free In this NIOZ report (in Dutch) - commissioned by the Directorate Knowledge and Education  (DWK) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries (LNV) - the direct effects of several human activities on the macrobenthos of the Dutch Continental Shelf are compared. Comparing the macrobenthic biodiversity situations of 1986 and 1998, no clear trends can be observed. For two species, however, the situation has changed dramatically. Of all human activities beamtrawl fishery has the most disturbing effects on both benthic fauna and fish, since the latter’s spawning areas are affected too. In general, fishery favours short living and fast reproducing species. In addition, other factors may also explain the decline of certain species and the differences in biodiversity, which, according to some researchers, are too small anyway to lead to undisputed conclusions.

Fundamentals of Integrated Coastal Management (The GeoJournal Library vol. 49)  By Adalberto Vallega (1999, 264 pp.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Fax +31 78 6546474, email: services@wkap.nl   ISBN 0 7923 5875 9. Price UK £ 80.00. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of integrated coastal management based on the sustainable development concept. It covers the a-biotic and biotic components of the ecological conditions, the economic and social organisation, and the role of decision-making systems. A few model coastal management programmes are presented. The Mediterranean Sea is used as the basic case study. This volume is of equal value to the academic community and to managers and planners.

Sustainable development and the EC fisheries sector By Clare Coffey (1999, 60 pp.). Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Dean Bradley House, 52 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AG, U.K. Fax +44 171 799 2600, email: central@ieeplondon.org.uk, ISBN 1 873906 19 6. While the value of the European fisheries sector is generally expressed in terms of final output, this provides a very poor indication of the sector's broader contribution to society. Concepts such as ‘tonnage liveweight’ do not reflect the sector's role in sustaining or diminishing cultural heritage, nor its socio-economic importance in some of Europe's most peripheral ‘fisheries dependent’ regions. Nor in any way does it reflect the sector's complex relationship with the environment. This study sets out some critical issues for the EC fisheries sector from an environmental perspective and contributes ideas to the development of alternative policies and management approaches.

Courses

European advanced study course MICAM2000-Nice (France) on "Mediterranean Integrated Coastal Area Management "

A bilingual English-French advanced study course on "Mediterranean Integrated Coastal Area Management (MICAM2000) is organised jointly by the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis (UNSA) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC).
This multidisciplinary course supported by the European Commission and UNESCO will be held in Nice (France), 4-15 September 2000, and is directed to 3rd cycle level participants: graduate students from universities and equivalent, young scientists and professionals affected by coastal environmental protection in the Mediterranean basin.
The deadline for candidates is 30 June 2000.
An abstract of the course (1 page to offprint), is also available on the MICAM2000 website: http://www.unice.fr/dessgp/micam2000
Contact: micam@unice.fr

New hyperlinks to websites

ARKive: electronic archive of photographs, moving pictures and sounds of endangered species and habitats. It will relate closely to the Red Data Books and the work of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)

British Oceanographic Data Centre: UK's national oceanographic database

Institut for Skibs- og Havteknik Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering, Technical University of Denmark: education and research on solid mechanics and fluid dynamics and their application in industry

Institute of Marine Research, Norway: national centre for research on coastal and ocean life and the marine environment 

Waddenvereniging: Organisation for protection of the Wadden Sea (in Dutch)
 

Check out the other Website Links on the Coastal Guide
 

Marine garbage costs millions

A report by KIMO (Local Authorities International Environmental Organisation) issued June 6th in London has revealed that marine garbage and small oil spills are costing coastal communities millions of euros in cleanup costs. Marine debris is interfering with maritime traffic by damaging the propulsion of ships; putting human lives and safety at risk; damaging tourism opportunities; impacting on the fishing and aquaculture industries; and costing rescue and emergency services. It demonstrates not only that polluters of the oceans are not being caught but that they are not paying for their actions either. The two-year research project was undertaken by KIMO, an association representing over 5 million coastal inhabitants around northern Europe, and is understood to be the first major study of its kind. 
Copies of the full report can be obtained in pdf format on the KIMO website: http://www.zetnet.co.uk/coms/kimo/reports.html

The mystery epidemic that has killed more than 10,000 seals in the Caspian Sea in the last two weeks of May is now linked to oil wastes and pesticides. The seals may have suffered from an overdose of toxins over a period of time, but there is still uncertainty over what triggered the poisoning in the first place. Still, there is no hard evidence, and the oil companies don't take the blame for the seals' deaths. Similar cases of seal deaths have occurred in recent years all around the Caspian. Last year 6,000 of the animals died off Azerbaijan while smaller numbers of deaths have been reported from the Turkmen and Russian sectors of the sea.
 

As a follow-up of Global Environment Outlook 2000, the first Production Meeting for GEO-3 was held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand from 3rd to 7th April 2000, hosted by UNEP's Environmental Assessment Programme for Asia and the Pacific. UNEP is planning on discussing marine and coastal issues as one of the GEO-3 themes. A thematic prototype for this area has been developed by Global Coastal Strategies, an organisation based in Queensland, Australia. This document provides a very brief overview of major trends in marine and coastal environmental issues since the Stockholm Conference in 1972, including consideration of how events have or haven't borne out expectations in 1972, new information and changes in perspective, the interlinkages between trends and policies, and an indication of root causes and driving forces behind the environmental and policy trends. The paper also identifies present priority and emerging issues. The prototype will serve as a framework for developing a chapter in the GEO-3 report on Marine and Coastal Areas, based upon the input of  UNEP's GEO regional collaborating centres.
For more information:
UNEP, State of the Environment Assessment Unit, Division of Environmental Information, Assessment and Early Warning, Ms Shova Khatry, e-mail: shova.khatry@unep.org
GEO-2000 website: http://www.unep.org/Geo2000
 

Deadline for submitting contributions to Coastal Guide News No 13:
Wednesday June 28,  2000

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.

Members of the Coastal Guide News editorial team: Erik Devilee, Irene Lucius, René van Oers and Albert Salman.
 

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