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Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Development

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A marine and coastal ecosystem offers various services to human civilisation, such as provisioning, supporting, cultural, and regulating services. These services have a positive impact on human well-being both directly or indirectly through their commodities. However, rising extensive constraints like poaching, water contamination, destruction of coastal habitat, and overall deterioration of biodiversity and biogeochemical processes lead to marine species and their ecosystems being at risk. These threats mainly obstruct the flow of ecological services on a broad scale, whose long-term value lowers the current economic benefits to society. Hence, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are implemented to uplift coastal and marine life for the betterment of society. This chapter deals with marine biota, ecological services, climatic effects on marine species, and SDGs for improving the marine environment.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the Director of CSIR-IICT for providing the research facilities. Meesa, the first author, thanks for the financial support granted by DST New Delhi, India, in the form of the Inspire Fellowship (IF160172). All the authors express deep gratitude toward Dr. N. Jayaraj and Dr. Madakka for their constant support and encouragement. All the authors are thankful to all the reviewers for their insightful comments for IICT Manuscript Communication No. IICT/Pubs./2022/155.

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  1. Applied Biology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Meesa Saraswathi & Sunil Misra

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Meesa Saraswathi & Sunil Misra

  3. National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Sonal Bhandari

  4. Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India

    M. Madakka

  5. Organic Synthesis and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    R. S. Prakasam

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  2. Department of Geology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

    G. Sreenivasulu

  3. Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India

    M. Madakka

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Saraswathi, M., Bhandari, S., Madakka, M., Prakasam, R.S., Misra, S. (2023). Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Development. In: Jayaraju, N., Sreenivasulu, G., Madakka, M., Manjulatha, M. (eds) Coasts, Estuaries and Lakes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21644-2_25

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