Finding effective solutions to manage marine resources is high on political and conservation agendas worldwide. This is made more urgent by the rate of increase in the human population and concomitant resource pressures in coastal areas. This paper links empirical socio-economic data about perceptions of marine resource health to the breaking of marine management rules, using fisheries as a cas...

Understanding the cross-scale nature of how natural resource trading links to local extraction patterns remains a topic of great relevance to stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems. Microeconomic influences on a society’s pattern of smallscale natural resources utilization can exacerbate resource overuse, especially under increased population pressure. In many rural communities t...

Historical information on cockle landings and studies local knowledge fishing, zoology, ecology in the Ria de Aveiro remain incomplete. Due to COVID-19 pandemic current conditions of artisanal fisheries Europe, understanding dynamics this activity has become even more necessary. Therefore, case study sought investigate changes that have taken place recent fishing decades verify degree contentme...

Stakeholders' interactions with environmental resources are influenced by their mental models of the socio-ecological system resource. Individual differences in such particularly important to identify, as diverse may be associated different behaviour or policy preferences and affect collaborative conservation efforts. In present work, we explore stakeholders' a assess content complexity across ...

Background: Retinopathy is one of chronic complications of diabetes mellitus and is the most common cause of blindness in developed countries between ages 20-70 years old. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of retinopathy and related factors on Iranian population. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study on a population of diabetic patients r...