Abstract Governance of South China Sea (SCS) fisheries remains weak despite
acknowledgement of their widespread overexploitation for the past few decades. This review …

Pollution from land‐based run‐off threatens coastal ecosystems and the services they
provide, detrimentally affecting the livelihoods of millions people on the world's coasts …

Over 1.3 billion people live on tropical coasts, primarily in developing countries. Many
depend on adjacent coastal seas for food, and livelihoods. We show how trends in …

Coral reef marine protected areas (MPA) are widely distributed around the globe for social
and ecological reasons. Relatively few of these MPAs are well managed. This review …

In response to growing interest in accessing traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for
conservation purposes, we discuss some of the complexities involved in doing TEK …

Research on agrarian changes in Southeast Asia has paid comparatively less attention to
the processes of livelihood change in coastal regions. In the context of declining profitability …

Important changes are needed to disciplinary theories and methods to support
interdisciplinary and integrated ocean and coastal management policies and …

We applied marine spatial planning (MSP) to manage conflicts in a multi-use coastal area of
Kenya. MSP involves several steps which were supported by using geographical …

Many conservationists and local governments in the Philippines (and other tropical
countries) have attempted to link marine protected areas (MPAs) with dive tourism, arguing …

Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a widely accepted approach for sustainable
management of the coastal environment. ICZM emphasizes integration across sectors …