Sustainable Exploitation of Marine Resources

Theme 6: Science for Sustainable Marine Resources

To achieve an ‘ecosystems approach’ for marine resource management, we need to disentangle human impacts from natural variability, over a range of temporal and spatial scales. This Theme combines physical modelling and trophic dynamics to re-assess past changes in marine ecosystems and predict their future development. It includes consideration of the ecological impacts of renewable energy sche...

Sustainable Exploitation of Saline Resources ecology, ecophysiology and cultivation of potential halophyte crops

Conservation and sustainable exploitation of plant genetic rsources: International developments

Plant Genetic Resources (PGRs) are one of the most valuable natural resources of anycountry. Biotechnology through genetic engineering of plants and the creation of new plantvarieties can increase the value of these resources. Different technical and legalmechanisms such as ex situ/in situ collection of PGRs, and Intellectual Property Rights(IPRs...

Rape and Run in Maluku: Exploitation of Living Marine Resources in Eastern Indonesia

The islands of eastern Indonesia are projected to experience the most rapid human population growth in the Indonesian archipelago within the next few decades, and development associated with this growth will exert increased pressure on the living marine resources there. Unfortunately, rampant exploitation of many of these resources is already occurring, as short-term economic gain takes precede...

Exploitation of endophytes for sustainable agricultural intensification

Intensive agriculture, which depends on unsustainable levels of agrochemical inputs, is environmentally harmful, and the expansion of these practices to meet future needs is not economically feasible. Other options should be considered to meet the global food security challenge. The plant microbiome has been linked to improved plant productivity and, in this microreview, we consider the endosph...