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1 Introduction
Pages 9-14

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From page 9...
... Detecting, assessing, predicting, and mitigating these effects require interdisciplinary and multidimensional approaches to environmental research and management. This type of research and management is also needed for understanding and dealing with natural processes that affect coastal communities, such as storm surges; beach migration; and fluctuations in the salinity and oxygenation of estuarine waters.
From page 10...
... In addition to the two case studies, GOM-RMRP and NECOP, many other marine research programs with a regional scope have been launched in recent years. This study was initiated to focus on these two NOAA programs, but other regional programs that have addressed similar issues relating to water quality and ecosystem health are briefly examined to provide a broader context.
From page 11...
... This introductory chapter concludes with a description of the coastal environment and related issues of environmental stewardship that are intended to provide a perspective for a regional approach to coastal marine research. Chapter 2 explores the rationale for regional marine research programs by defining the environmental problems and identifying the value of a regional approach to these problems.
From page 12...
... More recently, the NRC identified improving the health and productivity of coastal oceans, sustaining ocean ecosystems for future generations, and predicting climate variations over a human lifetime as the three broad areas of research that "present great opportunities for advances in the ocean sciences and will lead to concrete improvements for human life on this planet" (NRC, 1998~. In summary, both of these reports emphasize that:
From page 13...
... It is here that the problems of sustaining living resources, protecting and restoring ecosystem health, mitigating natural disasters, and protecting public health will become most pronounced over the next several decades. In the 1970s, the enactment of federal environmental laws (e.g., Clean Water Act and its amendments; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act; Fishery Conservation and Management Act; Coastal Zone Management Act; the Endangered Species Act; and the Marine Mammal Protection Act)
From page 14...
... , with significant consequences to public health, regional economies, and the capacity of coastal ecosystems to support living resources and many human activities. Polluted runoff, municipal and industrial pollution, contaminated sediments, and habitat fragmentation and degradation continue to pose management challenges.


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