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- Title
Confronting the challenges of implementing marine ecosystem-based management.
- Authors
Leslie, Heather M.; McLeod, Karen L.
- Abstract
Many services provided by coastal and marine ecosystems are in decline. Awareness of these declines and the need to improve existing management has led to a shift toward ecosystem-based approaches to marine management and conservation, both in the US and elsewhere. Marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) involves recognizing and addressing interactions among different spatial and temporal scales, within and among ecological and social systems, and among stakeholder groups and communities interested in the health and stewardship of coastal and marine areas. We discuss some overarching principles of marine EBM and highlight key challenges facing implementation. We then recommend ways in which natural and social scientists can advance implementation of ecosystem-based approaches in the oceans by addressing key research needs, building interdisciplinary scientific capacity, and synthesizing and communicating scientific knowledge to policy makers, managers, and other stakeholders.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARINE ecosystem management; ECOSYSTEM management; MARINE ecology; STAKEHOLDERS; ECOLOGY; SOCIAL institutions; SOCIAL systems; POLICY scientists; SOCIAL scientists
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2007, Vol 5, Issue 10, p540
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/060093