An integrated risk-based assessment of the North Sea to guide ecosystem-based management
| Autor: | Jacqueline E. Tamis, Leonie A. Robinson, Gerjan J. Piet, Fiona Culhane, Bob Rumes, Ruud H. Jongbloed |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Computer science 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Offshore wind farm Marine Strategy Framework Directive Onderzoeksformatie Fisheries management Sustainable agriculture Environmental Chemistry Marine ecosystem 14. Life underwater Waste Management and Disposal Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Marine Protected Area business.industry Pollution Ecosystem-based management Biodiversity Strategy Knowledge base 13. Climate action WIAS Marine protected area Risk assessment business |
| Zdroj: | Science of the Total Environment, 654, 694-704 Science of The Total Environment Science of the Total Environment 654 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
| Popis: | This study provides an integrated perspective to ecosystem based management (EBM) by considering a diverse array of societal goals, i.e. sustainable food supply, clean energy and a healthy marine ecosystem, and a selection of management measures to achieve them. The primary aim of this exercise is to provide guidance for (more) integrated EBM in the North Sea based on an evaluation of the effectiveness of those management measures in contributing to the conservation of marine biodiversity. A secondary aim is to identify the requirements of the knowledge base to guide such future EBM initiatives. Starting from the societal goals we performed a scoping exercise to identify a “focal social-ecological system” which is a subset of the full social-ecological system but considered adequate to guide EBM towards the achievement of those societal goals. A semi-quantitative risk assessment including all the relevant human activities, their pressures and the impacted ecosystem components was then applied to identify the main threats to the North Sea biodiversity and evaluate the effectiveness of the management measures to mitigate those threats. This exercise revealed the need for such risk-based approaches in providing a more integrated perspective but also the trade-off between being comprehensive but qualitative versus quantitative but limited in terms of the “focal” part of the SES that can be covered. The findings in this paper provide direction to the (further) development of EBM and its knowledge base that should ultimately allow an integrated perspective while maintaining its capacity to deliver the accuracy and detail needed for decision-making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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