Global International Waters Assessment: Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 56

United Nations Environment Programme

dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.coverage.spatial	South East Asia
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-11T20:08:24Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-11T20:08:24Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8810
dc.description	This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea region, which includes some of the land and sea areas of the three nations the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The region is situated in the centre of the world's marine biodiversity with many species of global significance and is surrounded by a rapidly growing population and rapidly deteriorating marine ecosystem. Habitat loss and community modification, having strong linkages with unsustainable exploitation of living resources and suspended solids in the drainage basins, were considered to have the most severe transboundary environmental and socio-economic impacts in the region. The past and present status and future prospects of these issues are discussed, and they are traced back to their root causes. Policy options to mitigate these problems are proposed that aim to provide solutions to these fundamental issues, in order to enhance the management of the region's aquatic environment.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GEF, University of Kalmar, Sweden
dc.rights	Public	en_US
dc.subject	natural resource
dc.subject	resource conservation
dc.subject	resources management
dc.subject	water
dc.subject	water analysis
dc.subject	water conservation
dc.subject	water consumption
dc.subject	water demand
dc.subject	water management
dc.subject	water monitoring
dc.subject	water protection
dc.subject	water quality
dc.subject	water resource
dc.subject	water resources management
dc.subject	water utilisation;environmental assessment
dc.subject	freshwater conservation
dc.subject	freshwater degradation
dc.subject	freshwater ecosystem
dc.subject	freshwater monitoring
dc.subject	fresh water pollution
dc.subject	freshwater resource
dc.subject	pollution control
dc.subject	pollution cost
dc.subject	water pollution
dc.subject	environmental conservation
dc.subject	environmental impact
dc.subject	environmental impact assessment
dc.subject	environmental protection
dc.subject	coast protection
dc.subject	coastal area
dc.subject	coastal ecosystem
dc.subject	coastal environment
dc.subject	coastal pollution
dc.subject	coastal water
dc.subject	marine conservation area
dc.subject	marine ecosystem
dc.subject	sea resource
dc.subject	sea water protection
dc.subject	coastal fishing
dc.subject	coastal management
dc.subject	river basin development
dc.subject	river management
dc.subject	water resources conservation
dc.subject	water resources development
dc.subject	transboundary pollution
dc.subject	environmental pollution
dc.title	Global International Waters Assessment: Sulu-Celebes (Sulawesi) Sea, GIWA Regional Assessment 56
dc.type	Reports, Books and Booklets	en_US
wd.identifier.sdgio	http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000048