Project record of Sustainability of Mediteranean Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems Under Semi Arid

Information

Type
Project
Name
Sustainability of Mediteranean Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems Under Semi Arid
Acronym
COLASU
Description @en
The project concerns two lagoonal ecosystems El Meleh (Tunisia) and Nador (Morocco). They are protected coastal zones, Nador is classified as a site of biological and ecological interest with fishery activity, El Meleh is foreseen to get the same status of interest in order to acquire a tourist economical interest. However, environmental stresses due to old day saline extraction and waste water station releases in El Meleh, threaten the cleanliness of the ecosystem and compromise their ecological status and consequent economical interest. In Nador present fishery activity, urban and agricultural releases threaten its cleanliness and urban developments may lead to the closing of the lagoon which compromises the fishery activity and may consequently give rise to unemployment. The overall objectives of the project are:
  • to understand the natural variations in lagoon ecosystem functioning
  • to define the parameters inducing alterations due to anthropogenic activity
  • to contribute to the safeguarding of their environmental cleanliness,
  • and finally to contribute to the development of sustainable long-term management strategies at a regional scale
Start date
2002-7
End date
2005-7

Institutes & people involved

Orbi Abdellatif
associated with: National Institute for Fisheries Research
role: Partner
Hilmi Karim
associated with: National Institute for Fisheries Research
role: Partner
Hammoumi Naima
associated with: Université Mohammed V Agdal
role: Co-ordinator

Expertise

Geomorphology
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3651
Hydrogeology
defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
term code: 88307
Hydrogeology
defined term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus
term code: 101474
Sedimentology
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 7402
Socioeconomic data
defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
term code: 69636
Transport processes
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 8728
geographic terms
Morocco
Tunisia

special collections

ENCORA
ENCORA: NorAfricaCoast
Theme 5: Long term coastal geomorphological change
Theme 7: Reservation and preservation of coastal biodiversity

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date created: 2008-06-17
date modified: 2008-06-17