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FileInternational Geosphere Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change
The global scope of LOICZ and the constraints of human and financial resources, necessitate the development of an objective typology of coastal units to serve as a sampling framework and to determine the appropriate weighting for preparing global syntheses, scenarios and models on the basis of limited spatial and temporal research data.
FileLOICZ Biogeochemical Modelling Guidelines
One of the long term objectives of LOICZ is to develop improved numerical models that describe the dynamics of biogeochemically important elements in the coastal zone at regional and global scales. To do so requires the development of common and consistent modelling approaches that can produce outputs at the local scale that can be integrated into larger-scale regional and global syntheses. These modelling guidelines have been developed by LOICZ for use by participating scientists in planning and conducting their research on a local scale in support of the broader regional and global syntheses.
FileFirst report of the JGOFS/LOICZ confidential margins task team
The Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies (JGOFS) and the Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) are Core Projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A study of Global Change (IGBP). They both have a primary interest in material fluxes in the ocean. JGOFS focuses on carbon fluxes in the open ocean, with interest in the continental margins as inputs to the ocean. LOICZ focuses on the land-sea interface and the coastal zone, with interest in the shelf edge as a boundary of exchange with the open ocean.
FileReport on the International Workshop on Continental shelf Fluxes of Carbon, Phosphorus and Nitrogen
The aim of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) is to describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the Earth system. The Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies (JGOFS) and the Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) are the two IGBP Core Projects dealing with the ocean. These project elements share a common interest in the open continental shelf.
FileComparison of Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fluxes in Mexican Coastal Lagoons
Coastal lagoons along the 12,000 km shoreline of Mexico are numerous, diverse, and well-studied. According to Contreras (1993) Mexico has about 180 coastal lagoons and other estuarine areas, with about 10,000 km2 on the Pacific coast and 10,000 km2 on the Gulf of Mexico. These lagoons are subject to extremely varied degrees and kinds of human pressure due to direct uses and indirect insults.
FileTowards Integrated Modelling and Analysis in Coastal Zones
All countries with a coastline have an interest in the sustainable management of the coastal resource systems. The task of sustainable management, defined here as sustainable utilisation of the multiple goods and services provision generated by coastal resources (processes, functions and their interrelationships), is likely to be made more difficult because of the consequences of global environmental change (including climate change). The Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Core Project of the IGBP focuses on the role of the world's coastal zones in the functioning of the Earth system: the way in which global changes will influence that role; the way in which such changes will affect the use of coastal space and resources by humanity; and the consequences of such changes for human welfare.
FileLOICZ Global Change Assessment and Synthesis of River Catchment-Coastal Sea Interactions and Human Dimensions
FileNutrient fluxes in transitional zones of the Italian coast
To achieve these objectives, the LOICZ programme of activities has two major thrusts. The first is the development of horizontal and, to a lesser extent, vertical material flux models and their dynamics from continental basins through regional seas to continental oceanic margins, based on our understanding of biogeochemical processes and data for coastal ecosystems and habitats and the human dimension. The second is the scaling of the material flux models to evaluate coastal changes at spatial scales to global levels and, eventually, across temporal scales.
FileThe Analysis of Governance Responses to Ecosystem Change
This Guide describes conceptual frameworks and methods for examining the governance dimensions of ecosystem change in coastal regions. It offers a step-by-step process for assembling a baseline of trends in the condition and use of the ecosystem or ecosystems in a specific place (a stretch of coastline, an estuary and its watershed, a protected area) and how the existing governance system has responded to the issues produced by those trends and issues.
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