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This Marine Insight article describes the different types of pollution caused by ships including: ballast water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, greywater pollution, blackwater/sewage pollution, chemical pollution, oil/bilge oil pollution, and solid waste pollution.

This WRI article highlights 8 ways to build back with a stronger blue economy post-COVID including bluer blue tourism, reducing shipping emissions, avoid squandering a post-COVID-19 fish bounty, supporting mariners, stay the course on ocean parks, farming the sea to feed billions, digitizing the ocean, and not preying on the moment.

This CBD, UNEP, and UNWTO report provides stakeholders with the tools to make the tourism sector more biodiversity friendly and more socially just. It addresses the links between tourism development, biological diversity conservation, and development / poverty reduction.

This One Planet guide provides information on the impacts of the environment, the rationale for good practice and suggestions on how to reduce the impacts related to boat operation, maintenance and during marine excursions. A self-assessment checklist is inserted to promote among marine recreation providers the practice of evaluating environmental performance.

This USDA Forest Service guidebook is intended to help designers and recreation professionals apply the Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines (FSORAG) and Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines (FSTAG) to help agencies and organizations develop accessible outdoor recreation and accessible trails.

This Seychelles Research Journal article explores the focus on Blue Economy goals in the Indian Ocean, examines the role that law can play in supporting them, and highlights key areas for future research.

This Routledge book, created for tourism academics and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises, examines the adventure tourism product, the adventure tourist profile, and provides a deeper analysis of issues including supply, geography and sustainability through a variety of case studies.

This case study analyses the role of environmental NGOs in managing sustainable coastal and marine tourism on Santa Maria island in the Azores.

This World Wildlife Fund report identifies and evaluates nature-based sustainable tourism-related certification schemes available in, or appropriate for Albania.

These Queensland Government guidelines provide background information and tools and key considerations that must be addressed as a first step in achieving best practice for ecotourism in Queensland’s national parks. Featuring case studies from Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, Costa Rica, and Namibia.