Ch. 2: Habitat mapping and marine zone management. In Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats. (Harris, P. T. and Baker, E. K., eds.)  

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Baker, E.K. | Harris, P.T.

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Demands are being made of the marine environment that threaten to erode the natural, social and economic benefits that human society derives from the oceans. Expanding populations ensure a continuing increase in the variety and complexity of marine based activities - fishing, power generation, tourism, mineral extraction, shipping etc. The two most commonly acknowledged purposes for habitat mapping in the case studies contained in this book are to support government spatial marine planning, management and decision-making and to support and underpin the design of marine protected areas (MPAs; see Ch. 64).

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