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Name of Publication:
Global International Waters Assessment
Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea, GIWA Regional assessment 56
Publisher
University of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations
Environment Programme
Publication date
June, 2005
Authors
De Vantier, L., Wilkinson, C., Souter, D., South, R., Skelton, P. and D. Lawrence
ISSN
1651-940X
Pages
116
Available formats
Electronically (PDF)
Description
This report present the GIWA assessment of the Sulu-Celebes
(Sulawesi) Sea region, which includes some of the land and sea areas
of the three nations the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The region
is situated in the centre of the world’s marine biodiversity with
many species of global significance and is surrounded by a rapidly growing
population and rapidly deteriorating marine ecosystem. Habitat loss
and community modification, having strong linkages with unsustainable
exploitation of living resources and suspended solids in the drainage
basins, were considered to have the most severe transboundary environmental
and socio-economic impacts in the region. The past and present status
and future prospects of these issues are discussed, and they are traced
back to their root causes. Policy options to mitigate these problems
are proposed that aim to provide solutions to these fundamental issues,
in order to enhance the management of the region’s aquatic environment.
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