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Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Conservation and Adaptive Management under Local and Global Environmental Impacts

Bioresources

Republic of the Philippines

Finished

Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Conservation and Adaptive Management under Local and Global Environmental Impacts

Conserve Rich Coastal Ecosystems with High Biodiversity Sustaining Local Community Livelihoods

Principal Investigator

- Prof.
  NADAOKA Kazuo
  Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

ODA Recipient Country

Republic of the Philippines

Research Institutions in Japan

Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hokkaido University / The University of Tokyo / Kochi University

Research Institutions in Counterpart Country

Marine Science Institute, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman (UPMSI), etc.

Adoption fiscal year

FY 2009

Research Period

5 Years

Overview of the Research Project

Comprehensive assessment of environmental stresses on coastal ecosystem and its responses towards a new conservation scheme development
The Philippines is among the world's richest in coastal ecosystems, but has suffered rapid degradation due to combined effects of uncontrolled tourism developments, overfishing, exploitation in adjacent watershed areas, global climate changes and others. This project is aiming at comprehensive assessment of these environmental stresses on coastal ecosystem and its responses, and socioeconomic factors in local communities causing these stresses, and thereby at developing a new conservation and adaptive management scheme both for the sustainable development of local communities and coastal ecosystem conservation.

A new scheme proposal for conservation and adaptive management of coastal ecosystems under local and global environmental impacts
We carried out intensive joint surveys at five focus sites and associated numerical simulation studies for comprehensive assessment of various environmental stresses on the coastal ecosystem of each site. We are developing integrated decision support systems which may be effectively used by, e.g., local communities for their sustainable developments including marine protected area managements and thereby for mitigating environmental stresses and promoting coastal ecosystem conservation and recovery.