Systematic conservation planning: a better recipe for managing the high seas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

Ban, Natalie C., Bax, Nicholas J., Gjerde, Kristina M., Devillers, Rodolphe, Dunn, Daniel C., Dunstan, Piers K., Hobday, Alistair J., Maxwell, Sara M., Kaplan, David M., Pressey, Robert L., Ardron, Jeff A., Game, Edward T., and Halpin, Patrick N. (2014) Systematic conservation planning: a better recipe for managing the high seas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. Conservation Letters, 7 (1). pp. 41-54.

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Abstract

At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in June 2012, world leaders committed to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the high seas). Our analysis of gaps in high seas management indicates that a paradigm shift to a more systematic approach will be needed to safeguard high seas biodiversity from mounting threats. Experience from terrestrial and coastal areas indicates that a systematic approach to conservation planning and management can help to maintain ecosystem health and productivity while enabling sustainable use. Our analysis further demonstrates that the current legal regime on the high seas is insufficient to realize these objectives: management institutions have neither an adequate mandate for integrated planning nor the ability to effectively coordinate across multiple management regimes. We identify key elements for future high seas management and posit that a two-pronged approach is most promising: the development of an improved global legal regime that incorporates systematic planning as well as the expansion of existing and new regional agreements and mandates. This combined approach is most likely to achieve the required ecosystem-based, integrated and science-based management that world leaders at Rio acknowledged should underpin ocean management.

Item ID: 32949
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1755-263X
Keywords: areas beyond national jurisdiction, deep sea, marine conservation, marine protected areas, marine spatial planning, open ocean, sustainable fisheries
Funders: Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Government National Environmental Research Program (NERP), Kaplan Fund, Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe), Nippon Foundation (NF)/University of British Columbia (UBC) Nereus Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), French National Reesarch Agency (ANR)
Projects and Grants: NOAA grant no. NA10NMF429028, ANR grant no. ANR-08STRA-03
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2014 09:22
FoR Codes: 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity @ 100%
SEO Codes: 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9607 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards > 960701 Coastal and Marine Management Policy @ 100%
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