Identification and prioritization of areas with high environmental risk in Mediterranean coastal areas: A flexible approach.

摘要: Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are the cornerstone for future management of coastal ecosystems with many vulnerability hazard indexes developed this purpose, especially in engineering literature, but with limited studies that considered ecological implications within a risk assessment. Similarly, concept of prioritization sites has been widely examined biodiversity conservation studies, but only recently as an instrument territory management. Considering plant diversity at species community levels, and their to three main potential hazards threatening areas (oil spills, Hazardous Noxious Substances pollution, fragmentation natural habitats), objective paper is define an easy-to-use approach locate prioritize more susceptible those stressors, order have practical instrument for ordinary extra-ordinary coastline. The procedure has applied pilot four Mediterranean countries (Italy, France, Lebanon Tunisia). This approach can provide policy planners, decision makers local communities instrument able to facilitate implementation ICZM (Integrated Coastal Zone Management) process territory.