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

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

J. S. Link

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

K. Cribari

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

A. Bundy

Bedford Institute of Oceanography

M. Dickey-Collas

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

ICES

H. M. Leslie

University of Maine

J. Hall

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

E. A. Fulton

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

University of Tasmania

J. J. Levenson

U.S. Department of the Interior

D. M. Parsons

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

University of Auckland

Ida-Maja Hassellöv

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Maritima studier

E. Olsen

Havforskningsinstituttet

G. S. DePiper

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

R. R. Gentry

Florida State University

Nature Conservancy

D. E. Clark

Cawthron Institute

R. E. Brainard

1stMission LLC

D. Mateos-Molina

Universidad de Murcia

Emirates Nature-WWF

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

Irish Marine Institute

A. Khan

African Development Bank

R. Chuenpagdee

Memorial University of Newfoundland

S. I. Large

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

O. Defeo

Universidad de la Republica

L. Shannon

University of Cape Town

Sarah Bailey

Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (GLLFAS)

A. Jordan

University of Tasmania

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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