Benthic ecological status of Algerian harbours

Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan area

“…Cities adapt to change and rapidly transform systems that limit current or future adaptive capacity and provide insights mediating the complex socio-ecological systems and their sustainable management. The interdependence across spatial and temporal scales looks into the socio-temporal dimensional effect; this study proposes an all-inclusive structure framework, taking the driver, pressure, state, impact, and response, also known as DPSIR criteria, into the framework to determine the causal relationship between the socio-temporal environment and human activities (Ling et al 2020;Ling and Lin 2018;Elliot et al 2017;Patrício et al 2016;Smith et al 2016;Lewison et al 2016;Meerow et al 2016;Gari et al 2015;OECD 2012). Measures to cope with urban stress and achieve the objectives of a resilience strategy concern various sectors and disciplines such as spatial planning informed to the reduction in land consumption and the development of large area, regional and provincial planning, the management of the vulnerability (Moraci et al 2020;Urso et al 2019).…”

“…Ultimately, the multi-scalar attributes trigger changes and transformation to the urban system (Moraci et al 2020;Meerow et al 2016;Chelleri et al 2015). The causal DPSIR framework identifies primary drivers that generate a set of pressures impacting the current state, or persistence that settles into a new state or transitions (Ling and Lin 2018;Elliot et al 2017). EEA (2007) considers the driving forces as "the social, demographic and economic developments in societies and the corresponding changes in lifestyles, overall levels of consumption and production patterns."…”

Ecological status assessment and non-indigenous species in industrial and fishing harbours of the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean Sea)

“…Harbours are considered as one of the most disturbed coastal ecosystems due to the increase in anthropogenic pressures (shipping activities, pollution and dredging) (Chan et al 2016;Dauvin et al 2017;Chatzinikolaou et al 2018;Romanelli et al 2019;Dimitriou et al 2020). In addition, harbours are considered as the major pathway to Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) due to their special features (Buruaem et al, 2012;Ardura et al 2015;Pejovic et al 2016).…”

“…Moreover, intensive anthropogenic pressures due to trawling practices, diverse pollution (e.g phosphogypsum inputs, industrial and urban wastes) and shipping activities have led to major environmental problems (Hattab et al, 2013;Boudaya et al 2019;Mosbahi et al 2019). Among the different taxonomic groups, macrobenthic invertebrates have been largely used as bio-indicators for aquatic monitoring because they respond rapidly to anthropogenic and natural stressors (Blanchet et al 2008;Dauvin et al 2012Dauvin et al , 2017. Furthermore, these organisms have relatively long life spans, implying they are unable to escape from disadvantageous conditions, which means they can be used to assess accidental and chronic environmental variations (Dauvin 1993;Reiss and Kroncke 2005;Blanchet et al 2008).…”

Spatial contamination and health risks of heavy metal(loid)s in surface soils from a petrochemical complex in the north-eastern region of Algeria

“…There are very limited published data on the soil contamination in Arzew, existing published studies being focused on the impacts of petrochemical activities on marine ecosystems (Dauvin et al 2017), whereas a large part of MTE found in Gulf or Arzew come from inland (from leaching of soils, and by wet or dry atmospheric deposition). From an environmental and human health point of view (the petrochemical platform is surrounded by urban concentration of about 148,782 inhabitants), it seems thus important to monitor the impact of anthropogenic activities on heavy metal contamination of urban soil and for the development of proper management strategies for urban environment pollution control and for the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils of Arzew city.…”