Traditional Law and environmental mangement in Melanesia

How a new sense of urgency about environmental problems has changed the relationship between ecology, other disciplines, and public policy

What can pirates´journals and centuries-old cookbooks teach modern-day ecologists? Mark Schrope meets the researchers who trawl history books for deeper insights into marine ecosystems.

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences.

Surf tourism in Indio-Pacific islands provides a striking example of the wave of adventure tourism development which is now sweeping worldwide.The significanse, status and sustainablity of surf tourism in Indo-Pacific islands are outlined in broad terms by Buckley.

This paper extends the work of other researchers by investigating surf tourists from a behavioural perspective, with the main aim of the study being to gain an insight into the travel patterns of the surf tourism market.

Outcomes of the East Asian Seas Congress 2006. Topics include oil spill compensation, integrated coastal management, marine pollution prevention, coastal tourism, conflict resolution, public-private partnerships and sustainable financing.

This edition of Tropical Coasts is dedicated to the marine economies of East and Southeast Asia. The magazine is produced by PEMSEA - Partnerships in Environmental Management of the Seas of East Asia.

Classic paper attributing increase in heat content of the ocean to anthropogenic forcing.