Marine Ecosystem-Based Management

About this book

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management provides a comprehensive exploration of ecosystem-based management (EBM), presenting it as an essential approach that integrates human activities with environmental processes. This book emphasizes the interconnected nature of these ecosystems, which cannot be managed effectively through traditional single-sector methods, and underscores how EBM addresses objectives from multiple sectors to balance ecosystem services, including ecological, economic, and social needs for current and future generations.

Authored by well-known champions of EBM, this volume integrates original research with an extensive review of decades of scientific work to systematically introduce the theory, modeling, applications, and policy behind this management approach. It conveys the what, why, and how of EBM in easily navigable chapters, making it accessible to broad academic and professional audiences spanning marine ecology, fisheries, oceanography, conservation biology, renewable energy, marine planning, coastal development, shipping, resource use management, and related professions operating in the ocean space.

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management covers not only why EBM is necessary, but also how it can be applied. This book aims to contribute to the development and implementation of EBM, refute myths, and encourage action. It is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers, professors, resource managers, and decision-makers interested in all aspects of marine resource management.

Contents

1. Why do we need ecosystem-based management (EBM)
2. What is EBM?
3. The multi-multi conundrum of EBM: sectors, pressures, and ecosystem components
4. EBM versus BAU (business-as-usual)
5. The legal basis for EBM
6. What data and information do we have and what do we need for EBM?
7. Assessing marine ecosystems
8. Models of marine ecosystems
9. Performance measures and decision criteria
10. Communicating and marketing EBM
11. Overcoming impediments to implementing EBM and future outlooks

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Biography

Dr Janne B. Haugen is a Fisheries Ecologist for IBSS Corp in support of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA NEFSC). She obtained her BSc from the University of South-Eastern Norway, during which she spent a semester at Prescott College, Arizona, her MSc from the University of Aberdeen, and her PhD from the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass SMAST). Dr Haugen has contributed to multiple scientific advisory groups and led research on a variety of topics, including fisheries management, highly migratory species, and ecosystem-based management. She has extensive international experience, and her work has informed both national and international scientific forums and marine policy efforts. Dr Haugen's prior positions include work in environmental consulting, a research fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and a visiting researcher appointment at the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office. Before pursuing a scientific career, she served in the infantry of the Norwegian Army. In her free time, she enjoys spearfishing, teaching yoga, salsa dancing, pilates, hiking, and spending time with her cats in Rhode Island.

Dr Jason S. Link is the Senior Scientist for Ecosystem-Based Management at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through which he guides the direction of EBM for the National Marine Fisheries Service. He obtained his BS from Central Michigan University and his PhD from Michigan Technological University. Dr Link has been a champion of ecosystem science and ecosystem-based management, both as a discipline and as a practice, for resource management agencies in the U.S. and around the world. Dr Link's prior positions in NOAA include serving in the Ecosystems Assessment Program and the Food Web Dynamics Program of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. He holds an adjunct faculty position at the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts (UMass SMAST). He is a fellow of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, a Frohlich Fellow, has received the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Medal for significant advances in fisheries science and a Department of Commerce Bronze medal, and has written several other books on ecosystem-based fisheries management. He enjoys hunting, fishing, snorkelling, weight-lifting, writing non-scientific works (under a pseudonym), helping with relief work around the world, chopping wood, and is active in his church. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, kids, and two very large dogs.