Guidance for implementation of integrated ecosystem assessments: a US perspective

PS Levin, CR Kelble, RL Shuford… - ICES Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as a basic approach for managing
human activities in marine ecosystems, with the aim of recovering and conserving marine …

Lessons learned from developing integrated ecosystem assessments to inform marine ecosystem-based management in the USA

JF Samhouri, AJ Haupt, PS Levin… - ICES Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Borne out of a collective movement towards ecosystem-based management (EBM),
multispecies and multi-sector scientific assessments of the ocean are emerging around the …

Integrating what? Levels of marine ecosystem-based assessment and management

JS Link, HI Browman - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Integrated assessment requires examination of factors across biological hierarchies,
taxonomic groups, ocean-use sectors, management objectives, and scientific disciplines …

Implementing “the IEA”: using integrated ecosystem assessment frameworks, programs, and applications in support of operationalizing ecosystem-based …

CJ Harvey, CR Kelble… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) approach was designed to assimilate scientific
knowledge in the ideal format for providing advice to inform marine Ecosystem-Based …

Why the complex nature of integrated ecosystem assessments requires a flexible and adaptive approach

M Dickey-Collas - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This article considers the approach taken by the ICES to integrated ecosystem assessments
(IEAs) in the context of the wider evolution of IEAs and the science/policy landscape within …

Bringing integrated ecosystem assessments to real life: a scientific framework for ICES

YM Walther, C Möllmann - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
An ecosystem approach to management (EAM) aims to secure a healthy ecosystem along
with sustainable use of its goods and services. Although the main principles of EAM are …

A practical approach to implementation of ecosystem‐based management: a case study using the Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem

I Altman, AMH Blakeslee, GC Osio… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The application of ecosystem‐based management (EBM) in marine environments has been
widely supported by scientists, managers, and policy makers, yet implementation of this …

Operationalizing and implementing ecosystem-based management

JS Link, HI Browman - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2017 - academic.oup.com
There is now a large literature on ecosystem-based management (EBM; also known as the
ecosystem approach). Our sense is that EBM is moving-albeit slowly-from the “what's, why's …

Improving ocean management through the use of ecological principles and integrated ecosystem assessments

MM Foley, MH Armsby, EE Prahler, MR Caldwell… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The US National Ocean Policy calls for ecosystem-based management (EBM) of
the ocean to help realize the vision advanced in the 2010 Executive Order on the …

International perceptions of an integrated, multi-sectoral, ecosystem approach to management

AR Marshak, JS Link, R Shuford… - ICES Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM) has emerged over the past
decades, largely to promote biodiversity conservation, and more recently sectoral tradeoffs …