Sustaining Europe’s seas as coupled social-ecological systems

There is ample evidence for human alteration of Europe's regional seas, particularly the enclosed or partly enclosed Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas. Accounts of habitat and biodiversity loss, pollution, and the decline of fish stocks in these economically, socially, and ecological...

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Published in:Ecology and society 2015-01, Vol.20 (1), p.1, Article art1
Main Authors: Mee, Laurence, Cooper, Philip, Kannen, Andreas, Gilbert, Alison J., O’Higgins, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Blacks
Coastal ecology
Common fisheries policy
Ecological sustainability
Ecology
ecosystem approach
Ecosystems
Environment
Environmental policy
Europe
Freshwater
Guest Editorial
Habitats
Human ecology
Marine ecology
Marine ecosystems
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
North sea
Pollution
regional seas
Seas
social-ecological systems
Sustainable agriculture
United Nations Environment Program
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Summary:There is ample evidence for human alteration of Europe's regional seas, particularly the enclosed or partly enclosed Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas. Accounts of habitat and biodiversity loss, pollution, and the decline of fish stocks in these economically, socially, and ecologically important seas demonstrate unsustainable use of the marine environment. At the same time, there is an insufficient quantity and quality of information to enable purely evidence-based management of Europe's seas despite this being a declared goal of many decision-makers; for example, less than 10% of the deep sea has been systematically explored (UNEP 2006).
ISSN:1708-3087
1708-3087
DOI:10.5751/ES-07143-200101