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In this section, we look at the definition of a coastal area, environmental changes observed in coastal areas in recent years, and the characteristics of labor activities in coastal areas, as well as the challenges of calculating them. Taking labor accounts in coastal areas is not as straight forward as one might hope, and there are still many obstacles and barriers in understanding coastal management activities as a whole, institutionally, geographically, periodically, and mentally. This exercise on calculating labor to maintain and restore coastal biodiversities hopefully provides a small starting point in linking numerous activities together.
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Yamashita, H., Yasufuku, T. (2017). Coastal Area Landscape: Environmental Changes and the Characteristics of Labor Activities. In: Shimizu, H., Takatori, C., Kawaguchi, N. (eds) Labor Forces and Landscape Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2278-4_8
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