Environmental Impact Assessment in the Marine Realm: Nutrient Loadings, Eutrophication, Acidification and Pollution
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 6 May 2024 | Viewed by 3141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon chemistry; land–ocean interactions; submarine groundwater discharge; ocean acidification
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Interests: trace metals; environmental impact assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global marine environment has long been deteriorating. Many countries have taken actions to protect marine resources and public health from pollution and restore and enhance the quality of their natural marine environments. Legislative, procedural, and technical strategies have been established for assessing the potential environmental changes caused by the development of new and existing sites, the remediation of disturbed or contaminated sites, use of natural resources, and/or significant new government laws, policies, regulations, and programs. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) plays a critical role in these assessments.
For this Special Issue, we encourage both original research articles and reviews highlighting diverse advances in the field of EIA on marine ecosystems, nutrients cycle, acidification, eutrophication and pollution, and countermeasures and challenges to negative impacts in the above topics. Case studies are welcome, and we realize that the resources available to implement an EIA program may limit the breadth and sophistication of the program's implementation. With that in mind, we encourage submissions from developing nations. Finally, in the era of global environmental change, we encourage discussion of efforts in differentiating local effects from those affected by regional or global changes.
The main focus of this issue is to provide an integrated platform to understand the current status of marine EIA by updating knowledge from a wide research community, including chemical and physical oceanographers, marine geologists and geochemists, and climate change experts.
Prof. Dr. Chen-Tung Arthur Chen
Prof. Dr. Xuelu Gao
Dr. Selvaraj Kandasamy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human activities
- global change
- ecological impact and feedback
- estuarine and coastal waters
- interface processes
- response measures
