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Threats to Australia's oceans and coasts : A systematic review
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- Laubenstein, Taryn (author)
- Australian Natl Univ, Fenner Sch Environm, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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- Smith, Timothy F. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,SWEDESD - Centrum för forskning och utbildning om lärande för hållbar utveckling,Univ Sunshine Coast, Sch Law & Soc, Sustainabil Res Ctr, Sippy Downs, Qld, Australia.;Brock Univ, Environm Sustainabil Res Ctr, St Catharines, ON, Canada.
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- Hobday, Alistair J. (author)
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.;Univ Tasmania, Ctr Marine Socioecol, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.
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- Pecl, Gretta T. (author)
- Univ Tasmania, Ctr Marine Socioecol, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.;Univ Tasmania, Inst Marine & Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.
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- Evans, Karen (author)
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.
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- Fulton, Elizabeth A. (author)
- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.;Univ Tasmania, Ctr Marine Socioecol, Hobart, Tas 7000, Australia.
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- O'Donnell, Tayanah (author)
- Australian Natl Univ, Fenner Sch Environm, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Australian Natl Univ, Fenner Sch Environm, Canberra, ACT, Australia SWEDESD - Centrum för forskning och utbildning om lärande för hållbar utveckling (creator_code:org_t)
- Elsevier, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: Ocean and Coastal Management. - : Elsevier. - 0964-5691 .- 1873-524X. ; 231
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- Oceans and coasts provide important ecosystem, livelihood, and cultural values to humans and the planet but face current and future compounding threats from anthropogenic activities associated with expanding pop-ulations and their use of and reliance on these environments. To respond to and mitigate these threats, there is a need to first systematically understand and categorise them. This paper reviewed 226 articles from the period 2010-2020 on threats to Australia's oceans and coasts, resulting in the identification of a total of 307 threats. Threats were grouped into three broad categories - threats from use and extraction; environmental and human -induced threats; and policy and socio-political threats -then ranked by frequency. The most common 'threats from use and extraction' were recreational activities, non-point source pollution, and urban development; the most common 'environmental and human-induced threat' was increased temperatures; and the most common 'policy and socio-political threat' was policy gaps and failures (e.g., a lack of coastal climate adaptation policies). The identification of threats across all three categories increased over time; however, the identification of 'threats from use and extraction' increased most rapidly over the last four years (2017-2020). Threats were most often described for their impacts on environmental values (68%), followed by economic (14%), socio-cultural (12%), and Indigenous (6%) values. Only 45 of the 226 papers (20%) discussed multiple threats. The threats facing Australia's oceans and coasts are rising, cumulative, and multi-faceted, and the inherent tensions between varied uses, along with intensification of uses that derive short-term anthropogenic benefit, will continue to degrade the ecological sustainability of ocean and coastal systems if actions are not taken.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Australia
- Blue economy
- Blue ribbon
- Ecosystem services
- Future
- Ocean and coastal governance
- Oceans and coasts sustainability
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