Rapid Assessment of Marine Pollution (RAMP) |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Gushan District, Kaohsiung City 804, Taiwan;2. National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, No.1, Sec.4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;3. Society of Wilderness (SOW), No.204, Zhao''an St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | RAMP embraces the integrated use of methods for the rapid measurement, assessment and access to information on the nature, sources and influences of coastal environmental change. It embraces approaches held in the literature, research and programs of RAMP (Rapid Assessment of Marine Pollution) and the emerging work described as RASE (Rapid Assessment of Socio-Economic Indicators). To protect coastal ecosystems and the health of communities effectively, management infrastructure requires the tools and resources necessary to detect damage to coastal ecosystems and their components, identify causative agents, impose remedial action, and demonstrate that measures have been effective. Pragmatic monitoring and prediction capabilities must also be built to provide further confidence that human impacts are being minimized and that threats to human health have been contained. For most of the world, however, the ability to build such capability is a technical challenge and often cost prohibitive. These constraints point to the need to develop and expand the integrated use of simple, robust, cost-effective environmental assessment procedures. This paper suggests that a system built around the Rapid Assessment of Marine Pollution (RAMP) and the Rapid Assessment of Socio-Economic Indicators (RASE) can, should and in some cases already has been effective in meeting such informational and management needs. |
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