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Coastal Restoration
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Coastal management and restoration of our planet's coastlines with a particular focus on California, Louisiana and the Pacific. Emphasizing wetland restoration, aspects of agriculture in the coastal plain, fisheries, dealing with coastal hazards, and effective governance.
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Louisiana may have found an unusual source of money to help pay for restoring the state’s coastal wetlands: fees required of developers by the Army Corps of Engineers to compensate for damage they expect to do to wetlands. Developers in...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Somehow I am dubious this will work in practice, although it seems to be working here in California. 
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The Australian government’s environmental protections system has been labelled “broken” after Gina Rinehart’s mining company managed to negotiate d
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Good to know that the Australian government is going the route of a full environmental retreat for all ecosystems and not "just" for terrestrial protected areas. G'Day Climate Change!
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See also:
Amrei von Hase, Andrew Cooke, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Rivolala Andriamparany, Vanessa Mass, Robin Mitchell, Kerry ten Kate 2015 Working towards NNL of Biodiversity and Beyond Ambatovy, Madagascar – A Case Study (2014). - Forest Trends, Ambatovy, Wildlife Conservation Society. 59 p.
http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_4813.pdf
ten Kate, K. and Crowe, M.2014. Biodiversity Offsets: Policy options for governments. An input paper for the IUCN Technical Study Group on Biodiversity Offsets. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 91pp.
http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_4777.pdf
IUCN 2014 Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Paper. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 65pp.
http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_4779.pdf
Pilgrim, J. & Ekstrom, J. 2014. Technical conditions for positive outcomes from biodiversity offsets. An input paper for the IUCN Technical Study Group on Biodiversity Offsets. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 46pp.
http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_4776.pdf