2nd Global Conference on Large Marine Ecosystems
September 11-13, 2007 Qingdao, China
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The LME approach to the assessment and management of marine resources was introduced in 1984, and the first international LME Conference
was held in 1990 in Monaco. Since the mid 1990s, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), in partnership with several UN agencies,
has supported 110 economically developing coastal countries with start-up funding at a level of $1.8 billion and the participation
of 2,500 experts and partners to apply LME assessment and management methods in 16 LME projects directed to the recovery and
sustainability of marine resources and their environments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The results of these
projects together with LME research in other parts of the world have been reviewed in LME symposia, 14 published volumes on LME case
studies, and synopses of LME methodology and theory.
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