Table of Contents

1. The Arabian Gulf 2. Oman 3. The Red Sea 4. The Northern Mozambique Channel 5. South Africa 6. Madagascar 7. The Sundarban Delta Complex 8. The Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve, Southern India 9. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands 10. The Maldives Archipelago 11. British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) 12. Seas of Mauritius 13. French Territories in the Western Indian Ocean 14. The North-Western Margin of Australia 15. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 16. Taiwan 17. The Bohai Sea 18. The Yellow Sea 19. The Coast of Vietnam: Present Status and Future Challenges for Sustainable Development 20. The West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia 21. Java Island, Indonesia 22. Thailand 23. The Philippines 24. Singapore 25. Sulawesi Seas, Indonesia 26. The Spratly Islands 27. New Caledonia 28. The Samoan Archipelago 29. Current Status of the US Military Atolls in the Pacific: Johnston and Wake 30. Tonga 31. The Coral Sea 32. Tuvalu 33. The Hawaiian Archipelago 34. The Pitcairn Islands 35. Fiji: Coastal and Marine Ecosystems 36. Nauru 37. Kiribati: Atolls and Marine Ecosystems 38. French Polynesia 39. Solomon Islands: Coastal and Marine Ecosystems 40. Western New Guinea: Papua and West Papua Provinces of Indonesia

About the Author

Professor Charles Sheppard holds a half-time position of Professor in the School of Life Sciences at The University of Warwick, UK. The remainder of his time he works for a range of UN , Governmental and aid agencies in tropical marine and coastal development issues. He advises several governments on marine and coastal management and science, including the UK Government on its tropical Overseas Territories. He has organised and led the scientific input to the 2010 creation of the world's largest fully protected marine researce, in the Chagos archipelago, Indian Ocean, where a lot of his research has been focussed. The other main geographical area of research is the Arabian region. PhD University of Durham 1976.