Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction
Many of the marine policy frameworks developed to protect biodiversity in deep-sea areas, including areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), include indicators to assess policy objectives. These frameworks often have specific guidance on how the indicators should be applied and interpreted. Select...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4265236 2024-09-09T19:58:30+00:00 Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction Orejas C Kenchington E Rice J Kazanidis G Palialexis A Johnson D Gianni M Danovaro R Roberts JM 2020-09-09 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104182 unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/atlas https://zenodo.org/communities/eu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104182 oai:zenodo.org:4265236 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104182 2024-07-25T09:57:03Z Many of the marine policy frameworks developed to protect biodiversity in deep-sea areas, including areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), include indicators to assess policy objectives. These frameworks often have specific guidance on how the indicators should be applied and interpreted. Selection of indicators is an important process and those with strong scientific underpinnings are more likely to produce the expected outcomes. We reviewed three policy and assessment frameworks which include ABNJ regions or were developed specifically for ABNJ: (1) Oslo and Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) ecosystem assessments, (2) the frameworks adopted to implement the UN General Assembly (UNGA) sustainable fisheries resolutions for the management of bottom fisheries to prevent Significant Adverse Impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems, and (3) the Aichi Biodiversity Targets adopted by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). We examined whether an assessment approach based on evaluation of Good Environmental Status (GES) under the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), could be applied to ABNJ. We examined each MSFD descriptor for its applicability to deep-sea habitats considering the work of two European projects concluding that the MSFD could be applied to ABNJ to support OSPAR, UNGA and CBD policy objectives towards a common approach to the assessment of the status of deep-sea ecosystems in ABNJ. In achieving this we also introduce readers outside of Europe to the work conducted within the MSFD. Article in Journal/Newspaper North East Atlantic Zenodo Marine Policy 121 104182 |
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Many of the marine policy frameworks developed to protect biodiversity in deep-sea areas, including areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), include indicators to assess policy objectives. These frameworks often have specific guidance on how the indicators should be applied and interpreted. Selection of indicators is an important process and those with strong scientific underpinnings are more likely to produce the expected outcomes. We reviewed three policy and assessment frameworks which include ABNJ regions or were developed specifically for ABNJ: (1) Oslo and Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) ecosystem assessments, (2) the frameworks adopted to implement the UN General Assembly (UNGA) sustainable fisheries resolutions for the management of bottom fisheries to prevent Significant Adverse Impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems, and (3) the Aichi Biodiversity Targets adopted by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). We examined whether an assessment approach based on evaluation of Good Environmental Status (GES) under the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), could be applied to ABNJ. We examined each MSFD descriptor for its applicability to deep-sea habitats considering the work of two European projects concluding that the MSFD could be applied to ABNJ to support OSPAR, UNGA and CBD policy objectives towards a common approach to the assessment of the status of deep-sea ecosystems in ABNJ. In achieving this we also introduce readers outside of Europe to the work conducted within the MSFD. |
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Orejas C Kenchington E Rice J Kazanidis G Palialexis A Johnson D Gianni M Danovaro R Roberts JM Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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Towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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towards a common approach to the assessment of the environmental status of deep-sea ecosystems in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
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