ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN

ACTIVITIES

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Strong links between managers ,users and scientists

• the 6 Malawi principles

• 5 points on management

• Move to the Ecosystem approach is an evolutionary process

• Management should be supported by scientific coordinated programmes

From a single use, to multiple uses of marine ecosystem

• Multiple impacts of most human activities, and global change including land-based activities,

• Healthy ecosystem with all the definitions function of the users, stakeholders and the scientific disciplins,

• Management objectives needed to be supportedby ecological objectives determined by operational objectives,

At a regional scale, Define:

• A review of the ecological status• Description of the ecosystem approach• Criteria for selecting objectives, indicators, limits ,

targets• Recommendations for management methods• Recommendations for assessment, monitoring and

scientific research• Methods of measuring progress towards

implementation

Ecosystem approach: drivers

• Sustainable development• Convention on Biological Diversity• Humans are key players in the ecosystem• Comprehensive integrated management of humau

activities on the best available scientific knowledge to maintain or restore , on a long term basis, the marine ecosystem health in relation with the linkage with the terrestrial activities andthe balance with socio economical activities

Management region

• defined in agreement with their ecological reality

• Defined by the localisation of the human activities

OPERATIONNAL OBJECTIVES

• Specific

• Measurable

• Achievable

• Realistic

• Time bound

INDICATORS

• Measurable• Cost-effective• Concrete• Interpretable• Grounded in theory• Sensitive• Responsive• Specific

MANAGEMENT

• Adaptive management

• Management structures

• Management tools:

Input controls, Output controls, Spatial and temporal distribution controls, Integrated planning tools, Remediation tools, Remediation tools, Economic incentives

Application of the Ecosystem Approach at a regional scale

• 1 Scoping the current situation• 2 Contrasting with the vision• 3 Important ecosystem properties and threats• 4 Setting ecological objectives• 5 Operationnal objectives with indicators and

reference points• 6 Ongoing management• 7 Periodic updates