Regional governance and ecosystem-based management of ocean and coastal resources: Can we get there from here?

Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Rosenberg, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 33745189398     PISSN: 10643958     EISSN: 10643958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. PEW OCEANS COMM'N, AMERICA'S LIVING OCEANS: CHARTING-A COURSE FOR SEA CHANGE (2003) [hereinafter PEW REPORT], available at http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/env_pew_oceansfinalreport.pdf;
2. U.S. COMM'N ON OCEAN POLICY, AN OCEAN BLUEPRINT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: FINAL REPORT OF THE U.S. CMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY (2004) [hereinafter USCOP REPORT], available at http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/ full color rpt/000_%20ocean_full_report.pdf.
3. PEW REPORT, supra note 1, at 44 ("Ecosystem-based management entails ... a new perspective that acknowledges[:] ... limits to our knowledge; marine ecosystems are inherently unpredictable; ... have functional, historical, and evolutionary limits that constrain human exploitation; ... a fundamental trade-off in fishing ... balanced between fish for human consumption and fish for the rest of the ecosystem; ecosystems are complex, adaptive systems.").
4. USCOP REPORT, supra note 1, at 63 ("Ecosystem-based management looks at all links among living and nonliving resources, rather than considering single issues in isolation. This system of management considers human activities, their benefits, and their potential impacts within the context of the broader biological and physical environment.").
5. SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON MARINE ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT 1 (2005), http://compassonline.org/files/inline/ EBM%20Consensus%20Statement_FINAL_July%62012_v12.pdf. The statement was signed by 217 academic scientists and policy experts with relevant expertise and published by the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea.
6. MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT, ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: SYNTHESIS v-vi (2005), available at http://www.maweb.org/en/ Products.aspx?.
7. A.A. Rosenberg & K.L. McLeod, Implementing Ecosystem-based Approaches to Management for Conservation of Ecosystem Services, 300 MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 270,271 (2005).
8. Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1996, 16 U.S.C. § 1802 (2000).
9. See, e.g., id.
10. See, e.g., Rosenberg & McLeod, supra note 6, at 271.
11. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 § 102, 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (2000).
12. Id. ("The Congress authorizes and directs that ... all agencies of the Federal Government shall ... utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and in decisionmaking which may have an impact on man's environment.").
13. See Memorandum from James L. Connaughton, Chairman, Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality, to Heads of Federal Agencies (June 24, 2005), available at http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ guidance.html.
14. PEW REPORT, supra note 1, at v;
15. USCOP REPORT, supra note 1, at 1.
16. USCOP REPORT, supra note 1, at 178-79.
17. Id. at 212-22.
18. Id. at 274-76.
19. SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON MARINE ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT, supra note 4, at 1.
20. USCOP REPORT, supra note 1, at 109-10.
21. Id. at 108-18.
22. See FOOD CHAINS, YIELDS, MODELS AND MANAGEMENT OF LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 1-34 (Kenneth Sherman et al. eds., 1991).
23. USCOP REPORT, supra note 1, at 92.
24. Id. at 88-89.