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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

  • Basic principles, definitions, concepts of environmental management (Sustainable development, Blue growth, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Approach).
  • Necessity of environmental management and sustainable development.
  • Management types, planning, schemes, techniques and concepts.
  • Historical evolution of environmental management.
  • Environmental studies on which management is based.
  • Management tools (institutional, technological, financial, social).
  • Management of marine protected areas.
  • Protection of endangered species.
  • Minimum sustainable population.
  • Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
  • Sustainable management of wetlands and deltaic systems.
  • National – European legislation for the protection, management and exploitation of the marine environment.
  • International conventions.
  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Marine Spatial Planning.
  • Dealing with marine pollution, remediation measures, monitoring alternatives.
  • Management of swimming areas.
  • Water from the sea – desalination.
  • Salt production.
  • Energy from renewable marine sources.
  • Minerals from the sea bottom.
  • Marine phosphorites.
  • Manganese and iron nodules.
  • Methane hydrates.
  • Introduction to Operational Oceanography.
  • The technological component of operational oceanography.
  • The forecasting component of operational oceanography.
  •  Applications in the Greek seas.