Marine Ecosystem-Based Management

By (author) Jason S. Link,Janne Haugen,Janne B. Haugen

ISBN13: 9780443446597

Imprint: Academic Press Inc

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/10/2025

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Description
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management provides a comprehensive exploration of ecosystem-based management (EBM), presenting it as an essential approach that integrates human activities with environmental processes. The book emphasizes the interconnected nature of these ecosystems, which cannot be managed effectively through traditional single-sector methods, and underscores how EBM addresses objectives from multiple sectors to balance ecosystem goods and services, including ecological, economic, and social needs for current and future generations. Authored by well-known champions of EBM, this volume integrates original research with a comprehensive review of decades of scientific work to systematically introduce the theory, modeling, applications, and policy behind this management approach. It conveys the what, why, and how of EBM in easily navigable chapters, making it accessible to broad academic and professional audiences spanning marine ecology, fisheries, oceanography, conservation biology, renewable energy, marine planning, coastal development, shipping, resource use management, and related professions operating in the ocean space. Marine Ecosystem-Based Management covers not only why EBM is necessary, but also how it can be applied. This book aims to contribute to the development and implementation of EBM, refute myths, and encourage action. It is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers, professors, resource managers, and decision-makers interested in all aspects of marine resource management.
1. Why do we need ecosystem-based management (EBM) 2. What is EBM? 3. The multi-multi conundrum of EBM: sectors, pressures, and ecosystem components 4. EBM versus BAU (business-as-usual) 5. The legal basis for EBM 6. What data and information do we have and what do we need for EBM? 7. Assessing marine ecosystems 8. Models of marine ecosystems 9. Performance measures and decision criteria 10. Communicating and marketing EBM 11. Overcoming impediments to implementing EBM and future outlooks
  • Fisheries & related industries
  • Marine biology
  • Professional & Vocational
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