Marine ecosystem-based management: challenges remain, yet solutions exist, and progress is occurring
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

Marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) is recognized as the best practice for managing multiple ocean-use sectors, explicitly addressing tradeoffs among them. However, implementation is perceived as challenging and often slow. A poll of over 150 international EBM experts revealed progress, challenges, and solutions in EBM implementation worldwide. Subsequent follow-up discussions with over 40 of these experts identified remaining impediments to further implementation of EBM: governance; stakeholder engagement; support; uncertainty about and understanding of EBM; technology and data; communication and marketing. EBM is often portrayed as too complex or too challenging to be fully implemented, but we report that identifiable and achievable solutions exist (e.g., political will, persistence, capacity building, changing incentives, and strategic marketing of EBM), for most of these challenges and some solutions can solve many impediments simultaneously. Furthermore, we are advancing in key components of EBM by practitioners who may not necessarily realize they are doing so under different paradigms. These findings indicate substantial progress on EBM, more than previously reported.

Författare

J. B. Haugen

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center

J. S. Link

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center

K. Cribari

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center

A. Bundy

Bedford Institute of Oceanography

M. Dickey-Collas

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

H. M. Leslie

University of Maine

J. Hall

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

E. A. Fulton

University of Tasmania

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

J. J. Levenson

U.S. Department of the Interior

D. M. Parsons

University of Auckland

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Ida-Maja Hassellöv

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Maritima studier

E. Olsen

Havforskningsinstituttet

G. S. DePiper

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center

R. R. Gentry

Nature Conservancy

Florida State University

D. E. Clark

Cawthron

R. E. Brainard

1stMission L.L.C.

D. Mateos-Molina

Universidad de Murcia

Emirates Nature - World Wide Fund for Nature

A. Borja

Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)

S. Gelcich

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

M. Guilhon

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)

N. C. Ban

University of Victoria

D. Pedreschi

Marine Institute Ireland

A. Khan

African Development Bank Abidjan

R. Chuenpagdee

Memorial University of Newfoundland

S. I. Large

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center

O. Defeo

Laboratorio de Ciencias del Mar

L. Shannon

University of Cape Town

Sarah Bailey

Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

A. Jordan

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

A. L. Agnalt

Havforskningsinstituttet

NPJ Ocean Sustainability

2731426X (eISSN)

Vol. 3 1 7

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Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Företagsekonomi

Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap

DOI

10.1038/s44183-024-00041-1

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2025-01-16