Articolo in rivista, 2020, ENG, 10.3389/fmars.2020.565968
Stelios Katsanevakis, Marta Coll, Simonetta Fraschetti, Sylvaine Giakoumi, DavidGoldsborough,VesnaMac?ic ?,PeterMackelworth,GilRilov, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Paolo G. Albano, Amanda E. Bates, Stanislao Bevilacqua, Elena Gissi, Virgilio Hermoso, Antonios D. Mazaris, Cristina Pita, Valentina Rossi, Yael Teff-Seker and Katherine Yates
Stelios Katsanevakis, Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece Marta Coll, Institute of Marine Science, ICM-CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Ecopath International Initiative, Barcelona, Spain Simonetta Fraschetti, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Università Federico II di Napoli, Naples, Italy; CoNISMa, Rome, Italy Sylvaine Giakoumi, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia DavidGoldsborough, Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, VesnaMac?ic ?, Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro, PeterMackelworth, Blue World Institute of Marine Research & Conservation, Veli Lo?inj, Croatia; Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia, Gil Rilov, National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Bremerhaven, Germany Paolo G. Albano, Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Amanda E. Bates, Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada Stanislao Bevilacqua, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; CoNISMa, Rome, Italy Elena Gissi, IUAV University of Venice, Venice, Italy Virgilio Hermoso, Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Lleida, Spain Antonios D. Mazaris, Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Cristina Pita, CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Valentina Rossi, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, National Research Council, Naples, Italy, Yael Teff-Seker, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Katherine Yates, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short of being effective. Acknowledging the challenges for marine conservation, a 4-year multi-national network, MarCons, supported collaborative marine conservation efforts to bridge the gap between science, management and policy, aiming to contribute in reversing present negative trends. By consolidating a large network of more than 100 scientists from 26 countries, and conducting a series of workshops over 4 years (2016-2020), MarCons analyzed challenges, opportunities and obstacles for advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas. Here, we synthesize the major issues that emerged from this analysis and make 12 key recommendations for policy makers, marine managers, and researchers. To increase the effectiveness of marine conservation planning, we recommend (1) designing coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the framework of marine spatial planning (MSP) and applying systematic conservation planning principles, including re-evaluation of existing management zones, (2) designing MPA networks within a broader transboundary planning framework, and (3) implementing integrated land-freshwater-sea approaches. To address inadequate or poorly informed management, we recommend (4) developing and implementing adaptive management plans in all sites of the Natura 2000 European conservation network and revising the Natura 2000 framework, (5) embedding and implementing cumulative effects assessments into a risk management process and making them operational, and (6) promoting actions to reach 'good environmental status' in all European waters. To account for global change in conservation planning and management, we further recommend (7) developing conservation strategies to address the impacts of global change, for example identifying climate-change refugia as high priority conservation areas, and (8) incorporating biological invasions in conservation plans and prioritizing management actions to control invasive species. Finally, to improve current practices that may compromise the effectiveness of conservation actions, we recommend (9) reinforcing the collection of high-quality open-access data, (10) improving mechanisms for public participation in MPA planning and management, (11) prioritizing conservation goals in full collaboration with stakeholders, and (12) addressing gender inequality in marine sciences and conservation.
Frontiers in Marine Science 7
Natura 2000, transboundary collaboration, global change, cumulative impact assessment, risk management, Marine Protected Areas, Public participation
IRISS – Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo, ISMAR – Istituto di scienze marine
ID: 435287
Year: 2020
Type: Articolo in rivista
Creation: 2020-11-04 15:22:08.000
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DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.565968
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.565968
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DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.565968