Integral Management of the Coastal Zone to Solve the Problems of Erosion in Las Glorias Beach, Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico

Jiménez-Illescas, Ángel R.; Zayas-Esquer, Ma Magdalena; Espinosa-Carreón, T. Leticia

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-810473-6.00010-8

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“…Human activities such as the construction of dams, the high population density, and the main economic activities including tourism, agriculture and aquaculture on coastal areas have caused or accelerated the process of erosion or accretion of the GC coastline [55][56][57]. This anthropogenic pressure on the coast is modifying the sedimentary dynamics, which ultimately affects the shoreline and can still be felt after several years [58][59][60][61].…”

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Long-Term Analysis of Wave Climate and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of California

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The last ten years have shown that Climate Change (CC) is a major global issue to attend to. The integration of its effects into coastal impact assessments and adaptation plans has gained great attention and interest, focused on avoiding or minimizing human lives and asset losses. Future scenarios of mean sea level rises and wave energy increase rates have then been computed, but downscaling still remains necessary to assess the possible local effects in small areas. In this context, the effects of CC on the wave climate in the Gulf of California (GC), Mexico, have received little attention, and no previous studies have tackled the long-term trend of wave climate at a regional scale. In this paper, the long-term trends of the wave height, wave period and wave energy in the GC were thus investigated, using the fifth-generation climate reanalysis dataset (ERA5). The long-term shoreline evolution was also examined from historical Landsat images, so as to identify erosional hotspots where intervention can be prioritized. The results indicate that both the mean and extreme wave regimes in the GC are getting more energetic and that two-thirds of the coast is suffering chronic erosion. A discrepancy between the trends of the wave period and wave height in some regions of the Gulf was also found. Finally, the importance of natural processes, human activity and CC in the shoreline change is highlighted, while addressing the need for future permanent field observations and studies in the GC.

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Long-Term Analysis of Wave Climate and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of California

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“…In Mexico, the Exclusive Economic Zone, which includes coastal and marine areas (3,149,920 km 2 ) [27], constitutes almost 60% of the national territory and generates many economic, social, and ecological benefits: (a) almost half of the population of the country that inhabits coastal areas [41][42][43]; (b) nearly 43% of Mexico's protected areas preserve its valuable natural resources and cultural services [44][45][46]; (c) and its multiple ecosystem services [45]. In addition, marine-coastal vegetation has great economic potential due to its support and regulation services that allow entrance to national and global carbon markets [17,47,48], (d) the diversity of the oceanographic processes on both coastlines of the country, which may provide an alternative energy source to that generated by the extraction of hydrocarbons [49], (e) contributes approximately 43% to the national Gross Domestic Product (GBP) [50]; (f) generates employment in fisheries, port areas, and tourism services. Despite this, the knowledge of what and how the FEI is implemented currently appears to focus on the profits generated by Federal Land Maritime Zone (ZOFEMAT) concessions [14], which only consists of a narrow coastal strip approximately 20 m wide of the 11,220 km of coastline.…”

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“…However, the strategic importance of these areas is not always accompanied by management conditions that ensure their sustainability, which implies a degradation and loss of coastal ecosystems, a loss in the well-being of the local people associated with them, and an impact on coastal economic development [16,17]. This scenario would imply a greater impact on the countries that have a relatively more percentage of the population settled in coastal areas and is highly dependent economies of the coastal-marine areas, such as the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean [48,51].…”

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“…However, there are few studies that have investigated how revenues generated by FEI are used or invested in coastal marine areas according to the objectives of the current public policies, especially when there are changes in development paradigms. Mexico's environmental policy changed with the incorporation of the Protocol of Nagoya that complements the Convention on Biological Diversity for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, which has channeled actions all around the country, including fiscal instruments to promote conservation [16,17].…”

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Fiscal Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Coastal Marine Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula

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Fiscal economic instruments (FEI) are indirect regulation mechanisms that generate public revenue for the state through rights to use, charges, and concessions. In Mexico, some of these instruments can be used in the surveillance, administration, and preservation of the environment. In this paper, we analyze the changes in Federal and State growth rates of expenditure budgets in critical areas of the Yucatan Peninsula coast to describe their contribution to sustainable development during the last 12 years. We present an adaptation of the methodological guide of economic instruments for environmental management from CEPAL, with 2013 as the base year for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator and the use of the Protocol of Nagoya year as an international compromise signed by Mexico. The results obtained show that the expenditure budgets respond to economic, political, and short-term security attention without expectations for sustainability. However, alarming evidence of severe environmental deterioration in the coast is diminishing natural attraction, from tourism, for example, which is the main source of income in the region. The effective use of FEI by local governments may be useful to addressing environmental challenges from a decentralization process with better awareness of the importance of coastal areas for regional sustainability.

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“…The vision for sustainable coastal development lies within the balanced economy-, environment-, and society-related actions [1]. However, the increasing population, especially in coastal areas, led to urban development, land reclamation, resource overexploitation, and pollution.…”

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Integrated Methodological Approach for the Documentation of Marine Priority Habitats and Submerged Antiquities: Examples from the Saronic Gulf, Greece

2021

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The rising human activities and resource exploitation have increased pressure in the coastal zone and the marine environment, risking the very existence of Marine Priority Habitats (MPH) and Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). The delimitation of these two priority areas in a time- and cost-effective way is essential for the sustainable management and exploitation of sea resources and natural-cultural heritage preservation. We propose an Integrated Methodological Approach for the Detection and Mapping of MPH and UCH. To achieve this, we used a downscale methodological approach of increasing spatial resolution based on three main methodological axes: (i) desk-based research, (ii) marine geophysics/seafloor classification, and (iii) in-depth visual inspection/3D mapping. This methodological scheme was implemented at the Saronic Gulf and focused on Aegina island. The methodology proposed, which combines existing and new techniques, proved successful in detecting and mapping the MPH and UCH in detail, while it compiled the information necessary for the establishment of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) maps. Finally, the MSP map constructed for the Saronic Gulf demonstrated the lack of holistic coastal zone management plans due to impacts on UCH linked to anthropogenic intervention and the sparsity of marine habitats owing to marine pollution.

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Integral Management of the Coastal Zone to Solve the Problems of Erosion in Las Glorias Beach, Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Long-Term Analysis of Wave Climate and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of California

Long-Term Analysis of Wave Climate and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of California

Fiscal Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Coastal Marine Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula

Integrated Methodological Approach for the Documentation of Marine Priority Habitats and Submerged Antiquities: Examples from the Saronic Gulf, Greece

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