Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

Name: Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
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ISBN: 9781597261555

ISBN-10: 1597261556

ISBN-13: 9781597261555

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Karen McLeod, Heather Leslie, Marco (Octavio) Aburto, Lilian (Naia) Alessa, Maria de los Angeles Carvajal

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Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge,Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceansis a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach. At its core, ecosystem-based management (EBM) is about acknowledging connections. Instead of focusing on the impacts of single activities on the delivery of individual ecosystem services, EBM focuses on the array of services that we receive from marine systems, the interactive and cumulative effects of…

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List price: $57.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 5/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Karen L. McLeod is the Director of Science for the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) at Oregon State University. Heather M. Leslie is the Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at Brown University.



Forward: Lessons from the Ice Bear



Preface: A Puget Sound Story



Acknowledgments



Setting the Stage



Why Ecosystem-Based Management?




What Do Managers Need?




Conceptual Basis for Ecosystem-Based Management



The Oceans as Peopled Seascapes




Resilience Science




Ecological Cross-Scale Interactions




Valuing Ecosystem Services




Connecting Concepts to Practice



Monitoring and Evaluation




Ecosystem Service Trade-offs




Integrating Local and Traditional Ecological Knowledge




Building the Legal and Institutional Framework




Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice



Morro Bay, California, USA




Puget Sound, Washington, USA




Gulf of California, Mexico




Eastern Scotian Shelf, Canada




Chesapeake Bay, USA




Lessons from National-Level Implementation Across the World




State of Practice




Looking Ahead



Toward a New Ethic for the Oceans




Ways Forward



About the Editors


Contributor Biographies


Index