'Whose science?' Precaution and power-play in European marine environmental decision-making

Marine Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 414-420

  De Santo, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EC Integrated Maritime Policy; EC Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Ecosystem approach; Good environmental status; Maritime Spatial Planning; Precautionary principle; Science policy interface

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; MARINE POLICY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EUROPE;

EID: 76449119978     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Underdal A. Science and politics: the anatomy of an uneasy partnership. In: Andresen S., Skodvin T., Underdal A., and Wettestad J. (Eds). Science and politics in international environmental regimes: between integrity and involvement (2000), Manchester University Press, Manchester 1-21
2. WSSD Rio Conference Plan of Implementation, paragraphs 22 and 103.
3. Jones P.J.S. Marine protected area strategies: issues, divergences and the search for middle ground. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11 3 (2001) 197-216
4. De Santo E.M., and Jones P.J.S. Offshore marine conservation policies in the North East Atlantic: emerging tensions and opportunities. Marine Policy 31 3 (2007) 336-347
5. De Santo EM, Jones PJS. The Darwin mounds: from undiscovered coral to the emergence of an offshore marine protected area regime. In: George RY, Cairns SD, editors. Conservation and adaptive management of seamount and deep sea coral ecosystems. 2007. p. 147-56.
6. EC Regulation 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the CFP, OJ L 358, 31.12.2002. p. 59.
7. R. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, ex parte Greenpeace (No. 2), 2 CMLR 94, 2000.
8. Case C-6/04, Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 9 June 2005.
9. Case C-131/05. Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
10. Communication from the President in agreement with Vice-President Walström: Strategic objectives 2005-2009 'Europe 2010: a partnership for European renewal. prosperity, solidarity and security', Section 2.2. Brussels, 26.1.2005, COM(2005)12 final.
11. Communication from the Commission to the European parliament, the council, the European economic and social committee and the committee of the regions: an integrated maritime policy for the European Union, Brussels 10.10.2007, COM(2007) 575 final.
12. Communication from the Commission: roadmap for maritime spatial planning: achieving common principles in the EU. Brussels, 25.11.2008, COM(2008) 791 final.
13. Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament. Thematic strategy on the protection and conservation of the marine environment. COM(2005)504.
14. Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the council establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (marine strategy directive) COM(2005)505.
15. Impact assessment SEC(2005)1290.
16. Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for community action in the field of water policy, OJ L 327, 22.12.2000. p. 1.
17. Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (marine strategy framework directive), OJ L 164, 25.06.2008. p. 19.
18. Mee L.D., Jefferson R.L., Laffoley D., and Elliot M. How good is good? Human values and Europe's proposed Marine Strategy Directive. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56 (2008) 187-204
19. Fletcher S. Converting science to policy through stakeholder involvement: an analysis of the European Marine Strategy Directive. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54 (2007) 1881-1886
20. Salomon M. The European commission proposal for a Marine Strategy: lacking substance. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52 (2006) 1328-1329
21. 1972 Act of Accession of Denmark, Ireland, Norway and the UK to the EC, OJ L 73, 28.3.72. p. 1.
22. Churchill R. EEC fisheries law (1987), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht
23. Jones PJS. Memorandum of Evidence on the role of the precautionary principle in justifying highly protected marine reserves. DMB3, Ev 145-147, Volume II of Joint Committee on the Draft Marine Bill Report; 2008. 〈www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/jcdmb.cfm〉.
24. Wilson J. Matching social and ecological systems in complex ocean fisheries. Ecology and Society 11 1 (2006) 9-30
25. Jones N, Jones H, Walsh C. Political science? Strengthening science-policy dialogue in developing countries. Overseas Development Institute Working Paper 294, August 2008.
26. Stokes E. The EC courts' contribution to refining the parameters of precaution. Journal of Risk Research 11 4 (2008) 491-507
27. Whiteside K.H. Precautionary politics: principle and practice in confronting environmental risk (2006), The MIT Press, Cambridge
28. Bradshaw G.A., and Borchers J.G. Uncertainty as information: narrowing the Science-policy Gap. Ecology and Society 4 1 (2000) [Art. 7]
29. Skodvin T., and Underdal A. Exploring the dynamics of the science-politics interaction. In: Andresen S., Skodvin T., Underdal A., and Wettestad J. (Eds). Science and politics in international environmental regimes (2000), Manchester University Press, Manchester 22-34
30. ICES Reports of the Advisory Committee on Ecosystems (ACE) 2002 and 2003.
31. Wilson J. Scientific uncertainty, complex systems, and the design of common-pool institutions. In: Ostrom E., Dietz T., Dolšak N., Stern P.C., Stonich S., and Weber E.U. (Eds). The drama of the commons (2002), National Academy Press, Washington, DC 327-359
32. Hartvigsen G., Kinzig A., and Peterson G. Use and analysis of complex adaptive systems in ecosystem science. Ecosystems 1 5 (1998) 427-430