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The Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management (Paperback, New)
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The Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management (Paperback, New)
Series: Earthscan Oceans
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The marine environment is one of our most precious yet fragile
natural resources. It provides a wide range of essential goods and
services, including food, regulation of climate and nutrient
cycling, as well as a setting for transport, recreation and
tourism. This environment is however extremely complex and very
sensitive to development pressures and other forms of human
influence. Planning and management of the sea are similarly
complicated, reflecting intricate legal, institutional and
ownerships patterns. This creates a situation where marine
ecosystems are vulnerable to over-exploitation or neglect. The
Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management describes how
growing concern about the state of our seas is resulting in the
development of new approaches to marine planning and management.
For example, the United Nations Environment Programme has called
for the widespread introduction of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP),
and the European Union has recently been consulting on a new
European Maritime Policy designed to stimulate economic growth but
at the same time protect the resource base. Within the United
Kingdom, the 2010 Marine Act draws upon the experience of town and
country planning and brings into being a new system of Marine
Spatial Planning. The authors show that a common feature of all
these developments is an appreciation that more integrated forms of
planning and management are required for our seas and that new
arrangements must draw together understanding from natural science,
social science and many other perspectives. Adopting such a
trans-disciplinary and holistic (or 'ecosystems') approach, the
book distils the expertise of these different disciplines and seeks
to promote a broader understanding of the origins and
practicalities of new approaches to marine planning and management.
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