Integrating what? Levels of marine ecosystem-based assessment and management

作者：Jason S. Link, Howard I. Browman · 发表于：ICES Journal of Marine Science · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.1093/icesjms/fsu026 · 被引用次数：160 · 研究领域：Coastal and Marine Management、Marine and fisheries research、Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Integrated assessment requires examination of factors across biological hierarchies, taxonomic groups, ocean-use sectors, management objectives, and scientific disciplines. The articles in this theme set represent attempts to clarify and elaborate upon what integrated assessments are, with a particular emphasis on how they are being implemented. The aim of this themed article set is to clarify the use of integratedassessment terminology and demonstrate, by presenting case studies, examples in which integrated ecosystem assessments serve as useful tools to implement ecosystem-based management (EBM) while also identifying challenges that must be overcome for this to succeed. In theory, EBM seeks to address the various natural and anthropogenic pressures faced by the key components of marine systems simultaneously. EBM also attempts to account for “cumulative impacts” that might otherwise be overlooked. Nascent attempts to implement EBM highlight the need—in practice—to address trade-offs across multiple objectives for a given system, in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. During the past decade, the discussion over EBM has shifted from “what is it and why should we do it” (Link, 2002; Browman and Stergiou, 2004, 2005) to “how can we do it and when can we operationalize it” (Arkema et al., 2006; Link, 2010; Berkes, 2012). Marine EBM (e.g. Levin and Lubchenco, 2008; McLeod and Leslie, 2009) and similar ecosystem-based efforts for more specific ocean-use sectors, such as ecosy...