Partnerships
in Environmental Management
for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
Environmental Carrying Capacity
and Sustainability Assessment |
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| PEMSEA aims to strengthen regional environmental governance for the Seas of East Asia. A Sustainable Development Strategy was drafted in 2002 to express the shared vision of 12 countries of East Asia and other stakeholders; it provides principles and guidelines for action to address issues in the region.
The scope of the SD Strategy entails a new partnership of national governments, civil society, regional agencies such as UNEP, and NGOs such as WWF. |
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Five
large marine ecosystems (LMES): the East China Sea, the
Yellow Sea, the South China Sea, the Sulu- Celebes Sea
and the Indonesian Seas |
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Issues:
ecological, resources, aesthetic, recreation,
cultural, political, development, management, communication
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Environmental
Carrying Capacity is recognised as a foundation to regional
planning, policy and decision- making. |
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Expert
contribution to specialist workshops on Carrying Capacity
as part of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Marine Science
& Technology, Kuala Lumpur, 2002. |
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Contributed
experience of carrying capacity related to land use
and development planning; identified Sustainability
Assessment framework to integrate technical information
to help with influencing the policy makers |
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| Large
Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) |
| Environmental
Carrying Capacity |
| Seas
of East Asia |
| Sustainable
Development Strategy |
| Partnerships
and Regional Governance |
| Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia |
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