Beautiful Bay Research Articles

Exploring meiofaunal assemblages in Pujada Bay, Philippines: A glimpse into one of the world's most beautiful bays

Exploring meiofaunal assemblages in Pujada Bay, Philippines: A glimpse into one of the world's most beautiful bays

城市生态保护红线划定与管理——以澳门特别行政区为例

我国澳门特别行政区是世界上人口密度最高的地区之一，人地关系紧张。随着城市和经济的发展，人类空间与生态空间失调，城市生态和人居环境问题不断加剧。在建设美丽湾区、美丽澳门和人们对美好人居环境需求的背景下，通过划定城市生态保护红线以控制和维持现有重要功能生态空间，保护和改善高敏感生态空间，维护区域生态安全显得尤为重要。基于对澳门陆域生态系统调查，结合城市和自然资源特征，从生态系统服务功能、生态系统敏感性、生物多样性分布以及现有生态保护区四个方面构建了城市生态保护红线划定方法框架，选取并评估水源涵养、雨洪调节、热岛调节、土壤保持、海岸带防护五类调节服务和生态系统服务中的休闲游憩的空间格局，水土流失敏感性和海岸带风暴潮敏感性两种生态敏感性的分布，并综合澳门具有保育价值生物的栖息地分布和现有保护区范围进行了城市生态保护红线的划定。研究结果显示，澳门城市生态保护红线区域总面积6.71km²，占研究区面积的19.79%，覆盖了44%的生态空间、12.4%的海岸线、所有的重要物种栖息地及三分之一的古树名木。依照此生态保护红线研究进一步提出针对各类红线地块的保护和管理措施。研究提出的城市生态保护红线划定思路，可以为其他城市的重要生态空间保护、修复与管理提供参考。;Macao Special Administrative Region is one of the most densely populated regions in the world, and the human-land relationship is tense. The fast development of the city and economy resulted in the imbalanced pattern of human space and ecological space, and serious problems of urban ecology and human settlement environment. In the context of building a beautiful Bay Area and a beautiful Macao, and people’s demand for a better living environment, it is particularly important to control and maintain the existing vitally functional ecological space, and to protect and improve the highly sensitive ecological space by delimiting the urban ecological conservation redlines, so as to maintain regional ecological security. Based on the survey of the terrestrial ecosystem in Macao and by combining the characteristics of the city and natural resources, this paper constructed a framework for the delineation of urban ecological conservation redlines from four aspects, i.e., ecosystem service functions, ecosystem sensitivity, biodiversity distribution and existing ecological protection zones. We selected and evaluated five types of regulation services (including water conservation, rain and flood regulation, heat island regulation, soil conservation, and coastal protection) and leisure and recreation in ecosystem services, and analyzed distribution of the sensitivity of water and soil erosion and the coastal storm surge. The results were further combined with the distribution of habitats of the species with high conservation value in Macao and the scope of the existing protected areas, and the urban ecological conservation redlines were finally delineated. The total area within the delineated Macao's urban ecological conservation redlines was 6.71 km², accounting for 19.79% of the study area, which covered 44% of the ecological space, 12.4% of the coastline, all the important species habitats and one third of the ancient famous trees. Corresponding protection and management measures were also provided according to different kinds of land parcels in this ecological conservation redlines. The proposed frame and method of urban ecological redlines delineation could also provide reference for conservation, restoration and management of important urban ecological spaces in other cities.

Material balance and ability of beach nourishment for the northern coast of Cai river mouth in Nha Trang bay

Nha Trang bay is considered one of the 29 most beautiful bays in the world. This is a coastal area with potential for tourism development with many beautiful clean beaches and dozens of large and small islands. In 2016, Nha Trang has attracted 5 million tourists including 1.2 million international tourists. Recently, while the development of tourism in the country tends to slow down, Nha Trang tourism in the period 2011–2016 increased by 19%/year on average. According to the statistics of Khanh Hoa province, Nha Trang tourism occupies 99% of the province. The number of hotels located in the immediate vicinity of Nha Trang’s central beach is 98% within 500 m from the coastline. In order to develop sustainable tourism, in addition to good management and protection of coastal and estuarine beach environments, more attention should be paid to the rehabilitation, expansion and development of the beach in the northern and southern areas to relieve pressure on the central beach and expand the investment potential and tourism development of Nha Trang city. According to survey data and the calculations based on a local project between Institute of Oceanography and Khanh Hoa province: "Identifying areas capable of rehabilitating and developing artificial beach and proposing solution for protection of natural beaches in Nha Trang Bay" (2014–2016), three beach nourishment scenarios have been simulated and evaluated, suggesting a number of potential areas for rehabilitation and artificial nourishment for the western coast of Nha Trang bay.

Introduction to the National Blue Bay Remediation Action Plan in China

ABSTRACTEcological degradation has inhibited sustainable development along the coast of China. To counter this, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) of China has implemented the Blue Bay Remediation Project for bay restoration as one of the strategies to build a strong marine nation by a process of integrated coastal-zone management. With the overall goals of pristine water, a green coast, clean beaches, beautiful bays and islands clearly defined, the restoration of 66 bays will be funded (about USD$48-64 million for each bay), starting with 16 bays in 2016. This project can be described as a milestone for China, as the marine environment has never before attracted such attention. Such a huge remediation project should provide an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Factors affecting European tourists’ satisfaction in Nha Trang city: perceptions of destination quality

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of the different factors of destination quality in explaining European tourist satisfaction in Nha Trang city, which has one of the 29 most beautiful bays in the world and more than one million international tourists per year. The authors will also make some recommendations to attract more European visitors to Nha Trang and to increase satisfaction, as measured by their intention to return in the future. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 356 European visitors participated in this study. A structural equation modelling was applied in order to test the relationship between the constructs, and to evaluate their reliability and validity. Findings The results indicate satisfactory reliability and validity of the constructs and support the five hypotheses within a structural equation modelling. The findings highlight the importance of incorporating the roles of different factors in explaining tourists’ satisfaction. Specially, in some previous studies, the composition of the destination quality such as accommodation, food services, the retail and souvenir shops and destination attractions has a great impact on domestic tourist’s satisfaction. While the study found that the biggest factor affecting European tourist’s satisfaction was the friendliness and hospitality of the local people in Nha Trang city. Research limitations/implications Future studies should test the difference in satisfaction with the quality of destinations of European tourists to Nha Trang city. Research sample surveys should be collected in order to the magnitude and priority of key European tourist markets such as Russia, England, France, Spain and Germany. In addition, future studies should include more representative samples in other cities and include both domestic and international visitors. The proposed model intends to combine some components of tourism behaviour dimensions (value, involvement, knowledge, ambivalence, certainty, preference, trust, etc.) to test the satisfaction and destination intentional loyalty within this multidimensional perspective in a tourist destination context. The study has not considered the relationship between the increase of Russian tourists to the Nha Trang city in recent years and the decline of the European tourists (England, France, Spain, and so on). Thus, future studies should extend the model to have a more comprehensive picture about the cultural differences and cultural conflict in explaining the loyalty destination of European tourists. Practical implications Based on the research findings, the paper strongly recommends the city government to build an image of Nha Trang with friendly and hospitable people. Schools, tourism companies, and local authorities should pay attention to education and training to raise public awareness for tourism development and respect for tourists. The local government needs to develop activities to help the city residents become the typical citizen in the eyes of European tourists, contributing to the sustainable development of tourism in the city. Originality/value This study explores and tests the different factors of destination quality in explaining European tourists’ satisfaction. The research findings confirm that different dimensions of perceived destination quality are important variables to explain European tourist satisfaction.

Stanley Mandelstam and my postdoctoral years at Berkeley

From 1959 to 1961 I was a postdoc at U.C. Berkeley. Personally, I regard my postdoctoral period as “Golden Years” – finished with course taking and thesis writing, not yet burdened with classes to teach, students to mentor, grants to apply for. Lots of freedom, lots of things to explore in the beautiful Bay Area.

A Continuous Electronic Nose Odor Monitoring System in the City of Agadir Morocco

The city of Agadir is one of the best tourist destinations in Morocco, considered as one of the most beautiful bay in the world, which has a port infrastructure and strong industry based on the processing of seafood which often implicated as the source of odors. In order to identify in real time the sources responsible for the odors experienced in the city center and to act quickly in conjunction with industry, the Wilaya of Souss Massa Draa Region has implemented a continuous odor monitoring and tracking system using electronic noses. The treatment of meteorological data and data sent by electronic nose enables atmospheric dispersion modeling, which allows to follow instantly the odor level in the study area and to identify the sources responsible for odors with receiving warning of incidents odors, data analysis system generated every four minutes allowed to have results confirmed by companions of questionnaires to nearby residents. To reduce odors, recommendations have been suggested, which is to set up affordable and efficient practices.

ベトナム南部ニャチャンにおける海岸侵食機構に関する研究

The erosion on a part of the 4.3km long sandy beach on the right side of Cai river mouth in Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam, which is widely considered as among the world's most beautiful bays, has been observed. This study investigates the mechanism of the shoreline variation based on the analysis of the aerial photographs which cover a long time period. The effect of the hotel which playing the function similar to a jetty in the coastal area has been discussed. The analysis also points out that the variation of the shoreline clearly related to the seasonal variation of wave. The erosion occurs from autumn to winter in every years with the dominant of the northeast monsoon. While, in the remaining periods shoreline is advance. Images from real-time monitoring cameras clearly show the variation process of shoreline from season to season,

J. D. Llewelyn and his family circle

Abstract At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Swansea was a small South Wales town of some 6000 inhabitants which could not quite make up its collective mind as to whether it wished to become a busy industrial seaport or a leisurely seaside resort. Commercially well situated at the mouth of the River Tawe, it provided harbour facilities for the increasingly industrialised Swansea Valley and overlooked a beautiful bay that Walter Savage Landor compared favourably with the bay of Naples. The town might have become either another Bristol or another Brighton, but in the event its thriving coal and copper industries soon converted Swansea into ‘Copperopolis’, one of the principal centres of metal-working in the world.1

Petrological Notes on Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and Alderney

During the nineteen years which have passed since we visited the Channel Islands, our friend Mr. John Parkinson has examined parts of Jersey with results described in four valuable papers contributed to this journal. He then turned his attention to Northern Guernsey, and in a short but very important summary of his work on its diorites, announced his conclusion that the syenite, horn-blende-gabbro, and diorite, which had been separated by the older observers, were not genetically distinct, but were related to each other as the products of the differentiation of a single magma. Our brief visits to the island in 1888 and 1891 had shown us that the above-named distinctions could hardly be maintained, and prepared us for some such conclusion as that just mentioned. The principal object of our visit in September 1910 was to make a further examination of this question and to study some of the numerous dykes a little more fully than Mr. Hill had been able to do when drawing up his sketch-map and general account of the geology of Guernsey. We also spent two full days in Alderney, an afternoon in Herm (both unknown to one of us), and twice visited Sark, in order to re-examine some specially interesting sections. I. The Gneiss. The gneiss, which occupies the larger half of Guernsey, forming the grand crags and beautiful bays of its more southern shores, was described by Mr. Hill in his paper on this island, to which Prof. Bonney contributed some petrographical notes. At

Biographical Notices of Eminent Yorkshire Geologists. No. iv. Hugh Edwin Strickland, F.R.S., &c

Hugh Edwin Strickland was the second son of Henry Eustasius Strickland, a younger son of the late Sir George Strickland, Bart., of Boynton, and Mary, the eldest daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S. He was born on the 2nd March, 1811, at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a small village situate between Bridlington and Scarborough, looking down upon the beautiful bay of Filey. His father occupied a farm of considerable extent in the vicinity. The locality was retired, and the bold features of the neighbouring cliffs of Speeton and Filey could not fail to impress the mind of even a child, and there can be little doubt that frequent rambles on this interesting coast, and the fossils which he would pick up from the Speeton cliffs or the chalk escarpment, formed a strong basis towards his subsequent inclination to the study of geology. Strickland was in the habit, even when a boy, of writing down his impressions in the form of a journal. In this diary he records that his earliest recollections commenced when he was staying at Hildenley, near Malton, with two of his father’s sisters, whilst his father, mother, brother, and sister, were on a visit to the south. This was in the end of 1814. “ I remember the party returning and taking me home to Reighten. I also remember my fourth birthday which came soon after. About this time my above-mentioned aunts, whose names were Julia and Charlotte, left Hildenley and bought a house ...