Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and
coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have
called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management.
Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, "Ecosystem-Based Management for
the Oceans" is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising new approach.
At its core, ecosystem-based management (EBM) is about acknowledging
connections. Instead of focusing on the impacts of single activities on the
delivery of individual ecosystem services, EBM focuses on the array of services
that we receive from marine systems, the interactive and cumulative effects of
multiple human activities on these coupled ecological and social systems, and
the