Emerging solutions to return nature to the urban ocean

L Airoldi, MW Beck, LB Firth, AB Bugnot… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Urban and periurban ocean developments impact 1.5% of the global exclusive economic
zones, and the demand for ocean space and resources is increasing. As we strive for a more …

Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities

DJ Watchorn, MA Cowan, DA Driscoll… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss and degradation, and their interaction with other threats, are driving declines in
animal populations worldwide. One potential approach for mitigating these threats is to …

Current and projected global extent of marine built structures

AB Bugnot, M Mayer-Pinto, L Airoldi, EC Heery… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The sprawl of marine construction is one of the most extreme human modifications to global
seascapes. Nevertheless, its global extent remains largely unquantified compared to that on …

Offshore wind farm artificial reefs affect ecosystem structure and functioning

S Degraer, DA Carey, JWP Coolen, ZL Hutchison… - Oceanography, 2020 - JSTOR
Offshore wind farms (OWFs) are proliferating globally. The submerged parts of their
structures act as artificial reefs, providing new habitats and likely affecting fisheries …

Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering

MJ Bishop, ML Vozzo… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Urbanization is leading to biodiversity loss through habitat homogenization. The smooth,
featureless surfaces of many marine urban structures support ecological communities, often …

Environmental impacts and benefits of marine floating solar

T Hooper, A Armstrong, B Vlaswinkel - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Deployment of floating solar photovoltaic installations (floatovoltaics) is advancing, with
various designs beginning to appear in a range of marine environments. Insight from …

A comprehensive look at Greenwashing from 1996 to 2021: a bibliometric analysis

MK Pendse, VS Nerlekar, P Darda - Journal of Indian Business …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to see how scholarly research on Greenwashing practices and
behaviour has progressed in the 21st century. There has been a lot of empirical, exploratory …

A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures

EMA Strain, PD Steinberg, M Vozzo… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Topographic complexity is widely accepted as a key driver of biodiversity, but at the
patch‐scale, complexity–biodiversity relationships may vary spatially and temporally …

Map** 21st century global coastal land reclamation

D Sengupta, YR Choi, B Tian, S Brown… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing population size and economic dependence on the coastal zone, coupled with the
growing need for residential, agricultural, industrial, commercial and green space …

Make a difference: Choose artificial reefs over natural reefs to compensate for the environmental impacts of dive tourism

LB Firth, M Farnworth, KPP Fraser… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the marine environment, natural reef habitats are amongst the most threatened by human
activities. Although reef-based ecotourism can benefit local economies, dive tourism can …