Perspectives on the marine environment and biodiversity in recreational ports: The marina of Gijon as a case study

Ibabe, Aitor; Borrell, Yaisel J.; Knobelspiess, S.; Dopico, Eduardo

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111645

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“…The environmental protection is the main topic because the activities developed in the marinas are likely to generate impact on their environment. This item has been broadly studied by literature, such as pollution problems [15,56,70,73,96,97], conditions to the coastal dynamics [61,98], as well as to the flora and fauna [54,[99][100][101][102][103][104][105]. Nevertheless, environmental management strategies are rare in marinas [57].…”

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Bridging the Gap between Landscape and Management within Marinas: A Review

Martín

Piqueras

2021

Land

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Marinas are known to be features related to nautical tourism. Nevertheless, the responsibility of managers does not lie solely on providing accurate services to boats, seafarers and visitors. Thus, an effective management should include other factors, because marinas are embodied in a singular space, with links to diverse nature. Landscape, known as the relationship between people and their environment, represents a set of these links. In this paper, we attempt to delve into the marina management and landscape. Firstly, a targeted exploration of the main issues related to the management of marinas was accomplished. Secondly, based on the previous items, a screening was carried out from a landscape viewpoint with the aim to stablish which elements of marina’s management are significant when tackling landscape. The results indicated that there is a concern with environmental aspects, specifically, on issues related to marine pollution and water quality. However, the determination of the main management-related issues, valued from a landscape perspective, may provide the main issues that need to be addressed in decision-making processes, incorporating the landscape dimension. Thus, we have attempted to understand and discuss how the landscape should be considered in marina management as a potential competitive advantage.

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Bridging the Gap between Landscape and Management within Marinas: A Review

Martín

Piqueras

2021

Land

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“…The public is generally unaware of the potential impacts of biological invasions. Finding ways to communicate scientific discoveries in this field remains a challenge (Simberloff et al 2013), especially nowadays, when the problem has reached such magnitude that the help of citizens is needed for the detection and control of potential biopollutants in marine ecosystems (Ibabe et al 2020). Scientists cannot be everywhere and citizen support can help to afford the research of bigger areas.…”

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Game-based learning for engaging citizens in biopollution control

Miralles

García‐Vázquez

Dopico

2021

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Citizens are essential for safeguarding ecosystems from biopollutants, but raising the population's awareness of the problem through the communication of scientific discoveries about biological invasions is still a challenge. Here, we have assayed an interdisciplinary game-based method of recognizing the invasive pygmy mussel Xenosotrobus securis for volunteers of different age groups, we have measured their learning gain and engagement, and we have compared it with that obtained from conventional talk-lecture training. A highly significant positive correlation was found between knowledge gain and awareness, which were both greater in children than in adults. Similar engagement was achieved in the two age groups regarding volunteering in an eradication project. The results suggest the high efficacy of game-based training, especially in young age groups. One year after the volunteers' action, environmental DNA surveys and visual inspections confirmed the control of the invasive species population in a defined area through time.

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“…An example of this is the tourism industry, where cruise ships represent 1.6% of the total number of tourists in the world, unfortunately being a source of pollution due to the spillage of pollutants or the transfer of invasive species to other areas [39,40].…”

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“…However, there are many other examples such as plastic parts, including microplastics and nanoplastics, due to their propagation in ecosystems and their ability to interact with biological systems or the textile industry, with the disposal of effluents in rivers and oceans affecting coral reefs or critical habitats such as seagrasses, which constitute a po-tential threat to recreational activities-especially diving. This is why the incorporation of the fundamentals of the Blue Economy, which promote sustainable development by minimizing freshwater consumption, organic pollution and chemical contamination in addition to strengthening tourism from coastal communities, enhancing the marketing of their products, the combination of their landscapes, ecological cultures, and recreational fishing, among others, is important [37,39,[41][42][43][44][45].…”

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Identifying the Blue Economy Global Epistemic Community

Vega-Muñoz

Salazar-Sepúlveda

Contreras-Barraza

2021

Water

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The following article aims to identify the characteristics of the epistemic community of Blue Economy researchers, through the description of its scientific production, its special organization and clustering. The information was examined using bibliometric techniques on 302 research works using the Web of Science databases (JCR) between 2013 and 2021. At the same time, VOSviewer software was used to represent the relationships metrically and visually between the data and metadata. A set of research works is reviewed which relates environmental conservation and its implication in the development of the territory, and the relationship between technology and the improvement of ocean management, to highlight those state interventions where benefits are generated for the population or where there is an important challenge for improvement.

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Perspectives on the marine environment and biodiversity in recreational ports: The marina of Gijon as a case study

Cited by 13 publications

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Bridging the Gap between Landscape and Management within Marinas: A Review

Bridging the Gap between Landscape and Management within Marinas: A Review

Game-based learning for engaging citizens in biopollution control

Identifying the Blue Economy Global Epistemic Community

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