Marine Ecosystem-Based Management
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Janne Haugen, Jason S. Link
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 6 5 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 6 6 0 - 3
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management provides a comprehensive exploration of ecosystem-based management (EBM), presenting it as an essential approach that integrates human activi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMarine Ecosystem-Based Management provides a comprehensive exploration of ecosystem-based management (EBM), presenting it as an essential approach that integrates human activities with environmental processes. The book emphasizes the interconnected nature of these ecosystems, which cannot be managed effectively through traditional single-sector methods, and underscores how EBM addresses objectives from multiple sectors to balance ecosystem goods and services, including ecological, economic, and social needs for current and future generations.
Authored by well-known champions of EBM, this volume integrates original research with a comprehensive review of decades of scientific work to systematically introduce the theory, modeling, applications, and policy behind this management approach. It conveys the what, why, and how of EBM in easily navigable chapters, making it accessible to broad academic and professional audiences spanning marine ecology, fisheries, oceanography, conservation biology, renewable energy, marine planning, coastal development, shipping, resource use management, and related professions operating in the ocean space.
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management covers not only why EBM is necessary, but also how it can be applied. This book aims to contribute to the development and implementation of EBM, refute myths, and encourage action. It is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers, professors, resource managers, and decision-makers interested in all aspects of marine resource management.
Authored by well-known champions of EBM, this volume integrates original research with a comprehensive review of decades of scientific work to systematically introduce the theory, modeling, applications, and policy behind this management approach. It conveys the what, why, and how of EBM in easily navigable chapters, making it accessible to broad academic and professional audiences spanning marine ecology, fisheries, oceanography, conservation biology, renewable energy, marine planning, coastal development, shipping, resource use management, and related professions operating in the ocean space.
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management covers not only why EBM is necessary, but also how it can be applied. This book aims to contribute to the development and implementation of EBM, refute myths, and encourage action. It is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers, professors, resource managers, and decision-makers interested in all aspects of marine resource management.
- Comprehensively synthesizes the theory and practice of marine ecosystem-based management
- Covers the entire range of ocean-use sectors for a complete socio-ecological system
- Offers a global scope, with real-world examples embedded throughout
- Utilizes clear pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, summaries, and discussion boxes to improve accessibility of content
Graduate students and post-graduate researchers of marine ecology; fisheries ecologists; marine ecosystem managers; government resource managers
1. Why do we need ecosystem-based management (EBM)
2. What is EBM?
3. The multi-multi conundrum of EBM: Sector pressures and ecosystem components
4. EBM versus BAU (business-as-usual)
5. The legal basis for EBM
6. What data and information do we have and what do we need for EBM?
7. Assessing marine ecosystems
8. Models of marine ecosystems
9. Performance measures and decision criteria
10. Communicating and marketing EPM
11. Overcoming impediments to implementing EBM and future outlooks
2. What is EBM?
3. The multi-multi conundrum of EBM: Sector pressures and ecosystem components
4. EBM versus BAU (business-as-usual)
5. The legal basis for EBM
6. What data and information do we have and what do we need for EBM?
7. Assessing marine ecosystems
8. Models of marine ecosystems
9. Performance measures and decision criteria
10. Communicating and marketing EPM
11. Overcoming impediments to implementing EBM and future outlooks
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443446597
- eBook ISBN: 9780443446603
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Janne Haugen
Dr. Janne Haugen is Fisheries Ecologist for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA NEFSC). She obtained her BSc from the University of South-Eastern Norway, her MSc from the University of Aberdeen, and her PhD from the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST). She has extensive experience in environmental governance, ecosystem modeling and assessments, and ecosystem-based management. Dr. Haugen’s prior positions included research fellow at the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (NOAA GARFO), visiting researcher at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and offshore wind development consultant for CSA Ocean Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA NMFS), USAJL
Jason S. Link
Dr. Jason S. Link is the Senior Scientist for Ecosystem-Based Management at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through which he manages the direction of EBM for the National Marine Fisheries Service. He obtained his BSc from Central Michigan University and his PhD from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Link’s prior agency positions included leading the Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) assessment team and leading the Food Web Dynamics Program of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA NEFSC). He holds an adjunct faculty position at the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts (UMass SMAST). He is a fellow of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, has received the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Medal for significant advances in fisheries science, and has written several other books on ecosystem-based fisheries management.
Affiliations and expertise
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA NMFS), USA