Human activities at sea have increased, causing subsequent degradation of ocean health
and affecting ecosystem services and societal goods and benefits. Climate change further …

Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Abstract The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive aims at good environmental
status (GES) in marine waters, following an ecosystem-based approach, focused on 11 …

Marine ecosystems are under high demand for human use, giving concerns about how
pressures from human activities may affect their structure, function, and status. In Europe …

Background Anthropogenic pressures on marine ecosystems have increased over the last
75 years and are expected to intensify in the future with potentially dramatic cascading …

There have been many recent developments and discussions regarding marine science for
policy, governance and management in the pages of Marine Pollution Bulletin and …

This study provides an integrated perspective to ecosystem based management (EBM) by
considering a diverse array of societal goals, ie sustainable food supply, clean energy and a …

Achieving good environmental status in the Baltic Sea region requires decision support tools
which are based on scientific knowledge across multiple disciplines. Such tools should …

Conceptual models summarize, visualize and explain actual or predicted situations and how
they might be tackled. In recent years, Pressure-State-Response (PSR) frameworks have …

Increases in human population and their resource use have drastically intensified pressures
on marine ecosystem services. The oceans have partly managed to buffer these multiple …