Sustainability is a key issue for companies offering products and services on the global market. The ever-increasing worldwide demand for raw materials in combination with the rising costs for materials and energy challenges companies to make their products, processes and services more sustainable. More and more customers are demanding sustainable products and services due to their increased aw...

Markets are now fashionable as institutions for managing water both nationally and internationally. True markets, however, have always been rare for water rights and there are good reasons for believing that they always will be. Water is an ambient resource where the actions of any one user necessarily affect many other users. If true markets are relied on to allocate water for particular uses ...

coastal monitoring programs are valuable tools for assessing the current state of coastal environments, for determining spatial and temporal trends in pollution and identifying potential sources of contaminants. monitoring often involves organisms from different environments, such as estuarine and intertidal zones, where conditions (e.g. salinity, temperature) fluctuate. Biomarkers “report” on ...

Though marine protected areas (MPAs) have recently become a central element of many marine resource management plans, the potentially negative effects of MPAs for fisheries harvests remain the major impediment to their use. Understanding population responses to implementation of MPAs, and their consequences for harvests, is essential to assessing the value of MPAs as a management tool. Here I u...

Uncertainty is a pervasive feature in natural resource management. Adaptive management, an approach that focuses on identifying critical uncertainties to be reduced via diagnostic management experiments, is one favored approach for tackling this reality. While adaptive management is identified as a key method in the environmental management toolbox, there remains a lack of clarity over when its...

In more advanced countries, the sustainable development concept was accepted both by the politicians and the industrial sector as the underlying philosophy for the preparation of development strategies, practically in all fields. This means using the natural resources within the limits of their renewability, and seeing that the resulting emissions have no negative impact on the environment. The...