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Knowledge for a sustainable Europe
A snapshot from the European Environment Agency, September 2019
This briefing is based on a range of EEA and Eionet work, and is intended to provide parliamentarians and the European Commission with a selection of key insights on the challenges for environmental sustainability.
Read the briefing here!
Coastal Hazards & Targeted Acquisitions: A Reasonable Shoreline Management Alternative
North Topsail Beach, North Carolina Case Study
This recently published study is the first of several case studies to be released by the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS), directed by Prof. Robert Young, one of the CCMS AC members.
Read more: Coastal Hazards & Targeted Acquisitions: A Reasonable Shoreline Management Alternative
COASTAL CARE "BEACH OF THE MONTH": A MODEL OF SMALL COMMUNITY, BEACH LOSS, WRONG RESPONSES
The CCMS AC member Nelson Rangel-Buitrago is the main author of a recent study on Santa Veronica beach, Atlantico, Caribbean coast, Colombia, published in Coastal Care website, feature Beach of the Month.
Santa Veronica is one of numerous recreational beach developments along Colombia’s Caribbean Coast most sharing a similar history of shoreline retreat, perceived as shoreline erosion, and the attempt to hold the shoreline in place through the use of shore-hardening structures.
Report of the First Global Planning Meeting on the UN Decade is available to read!
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO released the Summary Report of the First Global Planning Meeting for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to focus international efforts at the science-policy interface to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean health and to improve conditions for sustainable development of the ocean.
Read more: Report of the First Global Planning Meeting on the UN Decade is available to read!