ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES

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ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN
ACTIVITIES

• ICES cooperative research report

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Strong links between managers ,users and
scientists

• the 6 Malawi principles
• 5 points on management
• Move to the Ecosystem approach is an evolutionary
  process
• Management should be supported by scientific
  coordinated programmes

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From a single use, to multiple uses of marine
ecosystem

• Multiple impacts of most human activities, and
  global change including land-based activities,
• Healthy ecosystem with all the definitions
  function of the users, stakeholders and the
  scientific disciplins,
• Management objectives needed to be supportedby
  ecological objectives determined by operational
  objectives,

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At a regional scale, Define

• A review of the ecological status
• Description of the ecosystem approach
• Criteria for selecting objectives, indicators,
  limits , targets
• Recommendations for management methods
• Recommendations for assessment, monitoring and
  scientific research
• Methods of measuring progress towards
  implementation

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Ecosystem approach drivers

• Sustainable development
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Humans are key players in the ecosystem
• Comprehensive integrated management of humau
  activities on the best available scientific
  knowledge to maintain or restore , on a long term
  basis, the marine ecosystem health in relation
  with the linkage with the terrestrial activities
  andthe balance with socio economical activities

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Management region

• defined in agreement with their ecological
  reality
• Defined by the localisation of the human
  activities

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OPERATIONNAL OBJECTIVES

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time bound

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INDICATORS

• Measurable
• Cost-effective
• Concrete
• Interpretable
• Grounded in theory
• Sensitive
• Responsive
• Specific

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MANAGEMENT

• Adaptive management
• Management structures
• Management tools
• Input controls, Output controls, Spatial and
  temporal distribution controls, Integrated
  planning tools, Remediation tools, Remediation
  tools, Economic incentives

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Application of the Ecosystem Approach at a
regional scale

• 1 Scoping the current situation
• 2 Contrasting with the vision
• 3 Important ecosystem properties and threats
• 4 Setting ecological objectives
• 5 Operationnal objectives with indicators and
  reference points
• 6 Ongoing management
• 7 Periodic updates