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UNESCO Implementing Mauritius Strategy |
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Projects
 | Benthic Indicators |
| IOC study group established in 1999. Developing health indicators of coastal benthic communities, including combining datasets on coastal benthos and environmental conditions from different coastal regions into a global database. >> More
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| Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Programme (CARICOMP) |
| Network of 29 sites in 22 countries and territories, for determining the factors that regulate productivity of three main coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean (mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs) and assessing the nature and influence of land-sea interactions. >> More
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| Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN): South Asia Node |
| Five-year project funded by UK's Department of International Development (DFID) and executed by IOC, in India, Maldives and Sri Lanka, focusing on the development of capacity among national and regional counterparts to develop and implement coral reef monitoring and management programmes. >> More
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| Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) |
| IOC programme which fosters the effective management of, and scientific research on, harmful algal blooms, in order to understand their causes, predict their occurrences and mitigate their effects. >> More
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| Managing Beach Resources and Planning for Coastline Change in the Caribbean |
| Feedback-driven, long-term initiative (started 1985), known locally by an old acronym (COSALC), which includes beach monitoring in 13 countries/territories, development of a generic methodology, training in environmental video production and broadcasting, and educating schoolchildren in the use of scientific monitoring and wise management of beach resources. >> More
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| Ocean Carbon |
| Joint Advisory Panel of IOC and ICSU's Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), promoting observations needed for understanding and monitoring the role of oceans in the global carbon cycle. Current work includes maintaining a watching brief on carbon sequestration and promoting ocean carbon modelling. >> More
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| Performance of Exclusive Economic Zones (PEEZ) |
| One of the ‘flagship activities’ of Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC), itself one of the core projects of the International Human Dimensions Programme of Global Environmental Change (IHDP). PEEZ symposia include that on the sustainable use of national EEZs in the seas of the Asia-Pacific region, held in Bali in June 2002. >> More
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| Sandwatch |
| Project involving ASPnet's Caribbean Sea Project and CSI, which seeks to train students in the scientific monitoring of all aspects of beaches, and using the information together with local communities to enhance local beaches and reduce the level of pollution in the Caribbean Sea, established in 16 Caribbean countries. >> More
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| Small Islands Voice |
| Encouraging the involvement of the general public as a driving force for island development. Inter-regional initiative, launched in early 2002, with pilot activities in the Caribbean (St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, San Andres Archipelago), Indian Ocean (Seychelles) and Pacific (Cook Islands, Palau). >> More
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