Publications by authors named "Bud Ris"
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- The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in Kiribati is the largest and deepest UNESCO World Heritage site, serving as a model for marine conservation since its creation in 2008.
- PIPA includes various marine habitats and benefits from a unique conservation contract system, ensuring sustainable funding and oversight for effective management.
- The area's closure for full protection is crucial for assessing its success in conserving marine life, especially as global ocean resources are increasingly threatened by overfishing.
The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food, livelihoods and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable management aimed at maintaining the flow of a broad range of benefits from the ocean requires a comprehensive and quantitative method to measure and monitor the health of coupled human–ocean systems. We created an index comprising ten diverse public goals for a healthy coupled human–ocean system and calculated the index for every coastal country.
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