TY - JOUR
T1 - The potential of ecosystem-based management to integrate biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision in aquatic ecosystems
AU - Langhans, Simone D.
AU - Jähnig, Sonja C.
AU - Lago, Manuel
AU - Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid
AU - Hein, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the authors for their contributions, the many colleagues for reviewing manuscripts, and Damian Barcélo and Elena Paoletti for editing the VSI. This work was funded by the European Union's 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the grant agreement No. 642317. SDL has received additional funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 748625. SCJ acknowledges funding for the “GLANCE” project (Global Change Effects in River Ecosystems; 01 LN1320A) through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Funding Information:
We thank all the authors for their contributions, the many colleagues for reviewing manuscripts, and Damian Barcélo and Elena Paoletti for editing the VSI. This work was funded by the European Union 's 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the grant agreement No. 642317 . SDL has received additional funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 748625 . SCJ acknowledges funding for the “GLANCE” project (Global Change Effects in River Ecosystems; 01 LN1320A) through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - Global aquatic biodiversity keeps declining rapidly, despite international efforts providing a variety of policies and legislations that identify goals for, and give directions to protecting the world's aquatic fauna and flora. With the H2020 project AQUACROSS, we have made an unprecedented effort to unify policy strategies, knowledge, and management concepts of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems to support the achievement of the targets set by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. AQUACROSS has embraced the concept of ecosystem-based management (EBM), which approaches environmental management from a social-ecological system perspective to protect biodiversity and to sustainably harvest ecosystem services. This special issue includes contributions resulting from AQUACROSS, which either tackle selected EBM challenges from a theoretical point of view or apply EBM in one of the selected case studies across Europe. In this article, we introduce relevant topics, address the most important lessons learnt, and suggest where research should go with aquatic EBM. We hope that this special issue will foster and facilitate the uptake of EBM in aquatic ecosystems and, therewith, provide the on-ground applications needed for evaluating EBM's utility to safeguard aquatic biodiversity.
AB - Global aquatic biodiversity keeps declining rapidly, despite international efforts providing a variety of policies and legislations that identify goals for, and give directions to protecting the world's aquatic fauna and flora. With the H2020 project AQUACROSS, we have made an unprecedented effort to unify policy strategies, knowledge, and management concepts of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems to support the achievement of the targets set by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. AQUACROSS has embraced the concept of ecosystem-based management (EBM), which approaches environmental management from a social-ecological system perspective to protect biodiversity and to sustainably harvest ecosystem services. This special issue includes contributions resulting from AQUACROSS, which either tackle selected EBM challenges from a theoretical point of view or apply EBM in one of the selected case studies across Europe. In this article, we introduce relevant topics, address the most important lessons learnt, and suggest where research should go with aquatic EBM. We hope that this special issue will foster and facilitate the uptake of EBM in aquatic ecosystems and, therewith, provide the on-ground applications needed for evaluating EBM's utility to safeguard aquatic biodiversity.
KW - Aquatic ecosystems
KW - Ecosystem-based management
KW - Nature's contributions to people
KW - Policy making
KW - Resilience
KW - Social-ecological system
KW - Spatial planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064220347&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.025
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.025
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 30986745
AN - SCOPUS:85064220347
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 672
SP - 1017
EP - 1020
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
ER -