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The project aims to develop action plans to reconcile multiple demands placed on mangroves and adjacent coastal zones in Southeast Asia; local and national level stakeholders will participate in action planning, ensuring widespread support and increasing the likelihood of implementation.
This EU Sixth Framework Programme project (2005-2009) aims to improve understanding of mangrove ecosystems, communities and conflicts to develop knowledge-based approaches to reconcile the multiple demands on mangroves and adjacent coastal zones in Southeast Asia.
Experience in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia shows that mangroves are often situated within contexts in which the historical legacy is characterised by conflicting interests in terms of the management, governance and use of coastal resources. Hence, mangroves can be arenas for discord but also, potentially, for reconciliation.
Feature / Luciana Fernandes Coelho reveals Brazil's pivotal role in the BBNJ agreement, a crucial step for protecting marine biodiversity in international waters.
Feature / Mairon G. Baston Lima writes that governments need to build synergies with other policies for sustainable land use in a Trase Insight.
Journal article / This study applies the ‘Brussels Effect’ theory to identify key factors facilitating and hindering policy convergence between the EU and China.
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