Overview of Integrative Assessment of Marine Systems: The Ecosystem Approach in Practice
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...Holistic management practices are therefore required which encompass the environment, economy and society (de Jonge et al., 2003; Borja et al., 2016a)....
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...There is now an increasing number of assessment approaches worldwide for themarine environment but againmany of these by necessity assess Activities rather than Pressures (Borja et al., 2016a)....
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...The essence of integrated marine management is in linking all the relevant aspects, encompassing the natural and social sciences, hence giving and delivering the elements of both the socio-ecological system and the Ecosystem Approach (de Jonge et al., 2012; Burdon, 2016; Borja et al., 2016a)....
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...It is argued here that in order to fully achieve the Ecosystem Approach inmarinemanagement then an interdisciplinary approach is required which bridges the divide between the natural environment and society (Borja et al., 2016a, 2016b; Burdon, 2016; Turner and Schaafsma, 2015)....
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...Moreover, a science-based integrated ecosystem approach necessitates innovative holistic monitoring to obtain data to determine the health of aquatic ecosystems and adjust management decisions accordingly [17]....
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...Consequently, and despite the demonstrated ability of genetic data to delineate populations accurately (see section below), management units are predominantly based on administrative units, which are often not closely connected with population biology [8,17]....
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...Healthy oceans provide multiple valuable ecosystem services, which in turn produce societal benefits through food provision, raw materials, energy and recreation (Costanza et al., 1997; Barbier et al., 2012; Turner et al., 2014; Turner and Schaafsma, 2015)....
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...This triggered a series of national and regional studies on the effect of multiple stressors on ecosystem components (Crain et al., 2008; Ban et al., 2010; Coll et al., 2012; Korpinen et al., 2012; Micheli et al., 2013; Marcotte et al., 2015; Piggott et al., 2015; Nõges et al., 2016), with each one…...
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...Despite the benefits these activities deliver to humans, the resulting pressures, including noise, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution, alter marine ecosystems in a combination of synergistic and/or antagonistic ways (Crain et al., 2008; Ban et al., 2010; Piggott et al., 2015)....
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...Because the global assessment has been repeated annually for 4 years (Halpern et al., 2012, 2015b; www.ohi-science.org), emerging trends and patterns in calculated scores are becoming apparent....
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...To date, 11 assessments have been completed for seven different locations: globally for all coastal nations and territories for each year 2012–2015 (Halpern et al., 2012, 2015b), Brazilian coastal states (Elfes et al., 2014), the U.S. West Coast states and sub-states (Halpern et al., 2014), Fiji…...
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...Of the 11 completed OHI assessments, four have been independently-led....
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...It has been adopted also for several of the methods reviewed in this study, for example the OHI (Halpern et al., 2012, 2015b; in this case uses a range from 0 to 100)....
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...Here we review five existing methods that address both of these needs (monitoring and assessment): the Ecosystem Health Assessment Tool; a method for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in the Bay of Biscay; the Ocean Health Index (OHI); the Marine Biodiversity Assessment Tool, and the Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool....
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