Sustaining the world's large marine ecosystems / Kenneth Sherman, Marie Christine Aquarone and Sara Adams (editors).

This volume, Sustaining the World’s Large Marine Ecosystems, is a collaborative effort of NOAA’s Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) Program, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN is the world’s largest global environmental network. Its members include governments, nongovernmental organizations and 10,000 volunteer scientists in 160 countries. The IUCN Global Marine Programme has eight focus areas related to the conservation and sustainable use of oceans: climate change mitigation and adaptation, coastal livelihoods, the conservation of threatened species, energy and industry, fisheries and aquaculture, the management of marine invasive species, marine protected areas, and ocean governance. The IUCN promotes large marine ecosystem monitoring, assessment, management and biodiversity conservation through its support of capacity building and socioeconomic studies that further the understanding of ecological processes that drive the coastal economies of developing countries. Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) are regions of ocean space of 200,000 km² or greater, that encompass coastal areas from river basins and estuaries to the outer margins of a continental shelf or the seaward extent of a predominant coastal current. LMEs are defined by ecological criteria, including bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically linked populations. The LME concept for ecosystem-based management with its 5-module approach focused on productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, socioeconomics, and governance, was selected as a notable scientific breakthrough and commemorated in 2007 during the celebration of 200 years of ocean science by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its predecessor agencies (http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/). ..[from publisher]
Preface ; Contents GEF Support for the Global Movement toward the Improved Assessment and Management of Large Marine Ecosystems / Alfred M. Duda -- Indicators of Changing States of Large Marine Ecosystems / Kenneth Sherman, Igor Belkin, Sybil Seitzinger, Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, Marie-Christine Aquarone, Sally Adams -- Ocean Governance in the Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem – Establishing the Benguela Current Commission / Michael O’Toole -- The Recovery and Sustainability of the Baltic Sea Large Marine Ecosystem / Jan Thulin -- Changing States of the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: Anthropogenic Forcing and Climate Impacts / Qisheng Tang -- Some Considerations of Fisheries Management in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem / Mark Walton and Yihang Jiang -- The IUCN Support of Marine Protected Area Sites within Large Marine Ecosystems / James Oliver, Carl Gustaf Lundin, Dan Laffoley --- Future Needs of the LME Approach Worldwide / Gotthilf Hempel --- Outreach and Education for Ecosystem-based Management in the World’s Large Marine Ecosystems / Marie-Christine Aquarone.

viii, 142 p. : ill, maps ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9782837111577