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Managing marine environments and decision-making requires better application of the physical sedimentary sciences
- Source :
- Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 24:200-221
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Effective management of marine environments requires a sound understanding of the relevant physical sedimentary sciences. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a key management and decision-making tool employed in Australia for coastal and marine developments. This article examines the veracity of the application of the marine physical sciences within the EIA process, using turbidity measurement and sediment transport pathways as examples. A review of EIA guidance reveals deficiencies in regulation. Turbidity measurement is poorly understood and performed in current practice, while a focus on protecting marine habitats largely ignores those physical sedimentary processes, such as long-term bed-sediment transport pathways, that create and maintain these habitats. Thus evaluations of impacts of offshore activities such as channel dredging and spoil emplacement at sea are fundamentally flawed. An extensive body of scientific knowledge is already available on marine physical processes, and equivale...
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Sociology of scientific knowledge
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
business.industry
Ecology
Process (engineering)
Impact assessment
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Geography, Planning and Development
Environmental resource management
Marine habitats
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Dredging
Environmental science
Environmental impact assessment
business
Sediment transport
Channel (geography)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21595356 and 14486563
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6dadacf4ca6ced52ce5ed0d295297a27