2005-IGM-SPG 10.pdf - Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change ...

Appropriate education
1. Importance of education in
adapting to global change
2. Need to focus on positive aspects
3. Global or regional perspective not
always useful
4. Need for local examples and also
use of appropriate language
Outline of book chapters
OUTPUT 2 -
Coastal scientific book
1. Introduction
2. State of the environment in A-P coastal zone
3. Global change implications for the A-P CZ
4. Approaches to coastal zone management
5. How are catchments (and their management) interacting with A-P CZ ?
6. The history of coasts in the Asia-Pacific region
7. Human response to coastal change
8. Hotspots of urbanization and population growth A-P CZ?
9. Pressures on rural coasts
10. Impacts of pollutants on the A-P CZ?
11. Maintaining coastal ecosystems
12. Conclusions/synthesis/future direction of global change coastal research
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Priorities for for action
1. Focus on coastal issues relating to
global change in A-P A P region
2. More effective ways to achieve goals
3. Opportunities for young scientists
4. Linkages with policy development
5. Follow up for funded projects
6. Other donors and governments
7. Strategies for reducing impacts
8. More effective outputs from projects
9. Measures to reduce hazards
10. Materials to empower decisions on
coasts
CONCLUSION
1. APN’s coastal projects very
successful
2. Some APN goals were met
better than others
3. Need for better linkage between
science and policy-makers
4. OUTPUT 1 - APN Coastal
Synthesis provides useful and
readable overview of key issues
5. OUTPUT 2 - an important
scientific contribution from APN
with research directions for the
future
IGM/10/17
SPG/10/17