استطلاع ثروات حوض البحر الأحمر و الجهود الإدارية للمحافظة عليها

الملخص EN

This research objects to explore the red sea basin resources and some of the exerted managerial efforts to conserve them due to excessive utilization of some of these resources because of increasing human activities it based on published scientific data and applied induction and deduction approaches to achieve the outlined objectives of the research .

the red sea basin contains a biotic world rich with surface live organisms, benthonic organism such as fish, and sea birds, coral reefs, mangrove, pelagic organisms, sponges, soft reefs, and algae.

this bio-diversity came as a result of geological, climatic and geographic factors in addition to isolation caused by separation of animal life in its northern part from that in the southern part which created a barrier led to the rising of cold water rich with nutrients at the boundary of gulf of aden and arab sea.

the red sea also, contains much of mineral types such as ferrous and those have been eroded from earth-minerals, sand and gravel as well as those minerals which have been concentrated by plate tectonics.

the strategic location of the red sea basin, its latitudinal extension, and its huge area support the exploitation of these resources and increase their value.

these resources contribute in the national income of the red sea basin countries and attract the interest of international powers to share in their economic exploitation and the achievement of some political gains.

this excessive exploitation has resulted in deteriorating the red sea basin resources to make it a fragile environment with high vulnerability to risks.

therefore, many managerial efforts have been exerted by red sea basin countries to rationalize the exploitation of these resources and to conserve its natural environment.

from these efforts are prohibitions of hunting of some sea species, legislation of protected areas, marine policies formation, introduction of coastal management, application of zonal projects, and formation of a base of an integrated geographical information systems to help decision-makers to manage and classify the resources.

this research proposes the adoption of nexus approach to increase the effectiveness of these efforts.