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Title: | MAMA -- towards a new paradigm for ocean monitoring in the Mediterranean |
Authors: | Vallerga, Silvana Drago, Aldo Aarup, Thorkild Abdelbaki, Alaeldin Abuissa, Abdul Baset A. Awad, Hassan B. Awad, Morad Bacili Beken, Çolpan Besiktepe, Sükrü T. Boargob, A. F. Brundrit, Geoff Capari, M. Carlier, Aurélie Čermelj, Branko Casazza, Gianna Civili, F. Saverio Cohen, Yoram Christos, Tziavos Dahlin, Hans Dalla Costa, Marina Drakopoulos, Panos Flemming, Nicholas C. Font, Jordi Fusco, Giovanni Gertman, Isaac Georgiou, Georgios C. Harzallah, Ali Herrouin, Guy Ibrahim, Amir Kabbara, Nijad Ali Kljajic, Zoran Kouyoumjian, Hratch Legrand, Julien Lopez-Jurado, Jose Luis Magni, Paolo Mahmoud Elsheikh, Ali Maillard, Charles Malacic, Vlado Manzella, Giuseppe Marchand, Philippe Morovic, Mira Pissierssens, Peter Pinardi, Nadia Nittis, Kostas Rosen, Dov S. Summerhayes, Colin P. Ribotti, Alberto Reed, Greg Selenica, Agim Salihoglu, llkay Sammari, Cherif Sauzade, Didier Silvestri, Cecilia Snoussi, Maria Sorgente, Roberto Umgiesser, Georg Vargas-Yanez, Maria Vucijak, Branko Woods, Jeremy Zavatarelli, Marco Zodiatis, George |
Keywords: | Oceanography -- Mediterranean Region International relations Environmental monitoring Environmental management Marine sciences Marine ecology Environmental monitoring -- Technological innovations Environmental monitoring -- Mediterranean Region |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Citation: | Vallerga, S., Drago, A., Aarup, T., Abdelbaki, A., Abuissa, A., Awad, H., ... & Zodiatis, G. (2003). MAMA—Towards a new paradigm for ocean monitoring in the Mediterranean. Elsevier Oceanography Series, 69, 46-56. |
Abstract: | Sustainable development requires the intelligent management of the marine environment, to protect the marine ecosystem, minimise the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic influences, and provide benefits for a wide range of users. Routine ocean monitoring and forecasting based on sound science, long term and adaptive monitoring, and co-operation between nations, is the main tool for such a management. The assets and needs of all countries have to be identified, as well as the constraints impeding data exchange and marine observations in the EEZs. The challenge is to build a monitoring system based on up-to-date science and technology, and adapted to the specificity of the basin for the benefit of different users in all Mediterranean countries. It is necessary to involve all riparian countries in the process of building the Mediterranean monitoring system. A strengthened and dedicated link between the scientific community and the public authorities is moreover necessary to provide a sound scientific background for policy decisions based on environmental monitoring. Building on these concepts the Mediterranean network to Assess and upgrade the Monitoring and forecasting Activity in the region (MAMA), funded under the EESD Programme of the 5th FP, and involving partners from all the Mediterranean countries, aims to establish the multi-national network that will prepare the institutional linkages and regional platform for such an integrated and sustained monitoring system in the region. The project builds on the trans-national pooling of scientific and technological resources and provides a concerted basin-scale effort towards the planning and design of the initial ocean observing system in the Mediterranean. The system-wide approach of MAMA is expected to trigger an enhanced motivation on the relevance of systematic marine observations for the sustainable and shared use of the marine resources of the Mediterranean Sea. These catalytic ingredients constitute the thrust of MAMA and an enabling asset to the future projection into long-term commitments at governmental level. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/92943 |
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