Bringing stakeholders, scientists, and managers together through an integrated ecosystem assessment process

Yvonne L. deReynier, Phillip S. Levin and Noriko L. Shoji

Marine Policy, 2010, vol. 34, issue 3, 534-540

Abstract: For decades, the scientific community has conducted essential background research and developed appropriate modeling tools in support of an ecosystem-based approach to natural resource management. Resource managers and the public, however, lack a clear roadmap for working with scientists to move beyond the traditional single-species approach. With current management processes so strongly focused on working in a species-by-species framework, there are entrenched cultural and institutional challenges to shifting those processes toward ecosystem-based management. We propose using the integrated ecosystem assessment process to both develop new management ideas for a particular ecosystem, and to help shift public policy processes and perceptions to embrace ecosystem approaches to management.

Keywords: Ecosystem-based; management; Integrated; ecosystem; assessment; Public; policy; process; Ocean; resource; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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