2014•07•03     Triple Pundit

Excerpt from the article by Andrew Burger:

In their paper, the 24 scientists call on governments and societies to implement “holistic, regional-scale management approaches to balance the growth in competing demands” that mirror those being taken to manage land resources. Lead author Peter Sales of the UN University’s Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, elaborated,

“We zone land for development, for farms, for parks, for industry and other human needs. Required today is a comparable degree of care and planning for coastal ocean waters.”