Coastal Marine Environment Sustainability - Sustainable Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering - page 303

Strategy for rehabilitation of marine environment

Minimize discharge,
proper waste disposal

Integrated
environmental studies

Countermeasures for eutrophication
and polluted sediments

Creation of natural
purification systems

Rehabilitation

FIGURE 8.23
A strategy for rehabilitation of the marine environment.

one hand, suficient removal of excess nutrients is needed to avoid eutrophication, and on
the other hand, suficient nutrients must be available for the aquatic animals that rely on
these nutrients for their food supply. A sustainable coastal marine environment requires
a natural puriication system. Research and development into how this can be achieved
would contribute substantially to the goals of a sustainable coastal marine environment.
In the inal analysis, since fouling of the marine coastal environment and the sea is in
large measure attributable to the land-based activities and industries, proper control and
management of the land contamination would go a long way towards mitigating fouling.

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