TY - JOUR
T1 - A fast-moving target
T2 - achieving marine conservation goals under shifting climate and policies
AU - Rilov, Gil
AU - Fraschetti, Simonetta
AU - Gissi, Elena
AU - Pipitone, Carlo
AU - Badalamenti, Fabio
AU - Tamburello, Laura
AU - Menini, Elisabetta
AU - Goriup, Paul
AU - Mazaris, Antonios D.
AU - Garrabou, Joaquim
AU - Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro
AU - Danovaro, Roberto
AU - Loiseau, Charles
AU - Claudet, Joachim
AU - Katsanevakis, Stelios
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. Ecological Applications published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Ecological Society of America
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - In the Anthropocene, marine ecosystems are rapidly shifting to new ecological states. Achieving effective conservation of marine biodiversity has become a fast-moving target because of both global climate change and continuous shifts in marine policies. How prepared are we to deal with this crisis? We examined EU Member States Programs of Measures designed for the implementation of EU marine environmental policies, as well as recent European Marine Spatial Plans, and discovered that climate change is rarely considered operationally. Further, our analysis revealed that monitoring programs in marine protected areas are often insufficient to clearly distinguish between impacts of local and global stressors. Finally, we suggest that while the novel global Blue Growth approach may jeopardize previous marine conservation efforts, it can also provide new conservation opportunities. Adaptive management is the way forward (e.g., preserving ecosystem functions in climate change hotspots, and identifying and targeting climate refugia areas for protection) using Marine Spatial Planning as a framework for action, especially given the push for Blue Growth.
AB - In the Anthropocene, marine ecosystems are rapidly shifting to new ecological states. Achieving effective conservation of marine biodiversity has become a fast-moving target because of both global climate change and continuous shifts in marine policies. How prepared are we to deal with this crisis? We examined EU Member States Programs of Measures designed for the implementation of EU marine environmental policies, as well as recent European Marine Spatial Plans, and discovered that climate change is rarely considered operationally. Further, our analysis revealed that monitoring programs in marine protected areas are often insufficient to clearly distinguish between impacts of local and global stressors. Finally, we suggest that while the novel global Blue Growth approach may jeopardize previous marine conservation efforts, it can also provide new conservation opportunities. Adaptive management is the way forward (e.g., preserving ecosystem functions in climate change hotspots, and identifying and targeting climate refugia areas for protection) using Marine Spatial Planning as a framework for action, especially given the push for Blue Growth.
KW - Blue Growth
KW - Mediterranean Sea
KW - adaptive management
KW - climate change
KW - marine protected areas
KW - marine special planning
KW - marine strategy framework directive
KW - policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074785223&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2009
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2009
M3 - Article
C2 - 31549453
SN - 1051-0761
VL - 30
JO - Ecological Applications
JF - Ecological Applications
IS - 1
M1 - e02009
ER -