The Sea, Volume 16: Marine Ecosystem-Based Management (Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the) - Hardcover

Michael J. Fogarty; James J. McCarthy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674072707 ISBN 13: 9780674072701

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2014

Synopsis

With marine ecosystems endangered by a warming climate and exploding human population growth, a critical transformation is taking place in the way the world's ocean resources are managed. Marine Ecosystem-Based Management presents a state-of-the-art synopsis of the conservation approaches that are currently being translated from theory to action on a global scale. With contributions from an international team of experts, this volume synthesizes the scientific literature of holistic practices in ecosystem-based management (EBM), focusing on protecting the marine ecologies that humans and countless other organisms vitally depend upon.

Human uses of ocean ecosystems have usually been divided into separate sectors--fisheries, transportation, tourism, and recreation, for example--and ecosystem boundaries defined as much by politics as geography. This approach is giving way to a broader strategy based on integrated management of human activities in scientifically identified regions of the marine environment. Spanning a range of issues from the tropics to the poles, the authors present analyses of open ocean systems and high-impact regions such as coastlines, coral reefs, and estuaries. Methods of modeling and evaluating marine EBM are explored, as well as the role of governmental and other regulatory frameworks in ocean management and the lessons to be learned from past ecological interventions.

It is now widely recognized that any viable strategy for sustaining the world's oceans must reflect the relationships among all ecosystem components, human and nonhuman species included. Marine Ecosystem-Based Management is an in-depth report of new advances in the rapidly evolving discipline of coupled Human-Ecological Systems.

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About the Authors

Michael J. Fogarty is Head of the Ecosystem Assessment Center at the National Marine Fisheries Service.

James J. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and researcher at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, and a Hrdy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674072707
• ISBN 13: 9780674072701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Head Michael J Fogarty, Professor James J McCarthy