ICES Marine and coastal ecosystem-based risk management handbook (2013)
Management of any environmental issue requires the application of management measures designed to eliminate, control, mitigate, or compensate for pressures related to the drivers of human activities to avoid potential environmental effects. Management strategies are typically implemented in the form of regulations, policies, programmes, best management practices, standard operating procedures, management targets, and even stewardship and education, to name a few. In practice, environmental management measures target driver-specific pressures to reduce the risk of environmental effects and subsequent impacts on vulnerable ecosystems and environmental services. Particularly in the marine environment, the coastal zone is influenced by many drivers occurring within a very dynamic ecosystem, integrating land-based and marine influences. Already managed by a complex jurisdictional framework, each of these pressures can cause environmental effects individually or in combination with pressures from other drivers. From a simple management perspective, the challenge lies in identifying environmental management priorities that consider the most significant pressures and ecosystem vulnerabilities.
ICES Marine and coastal ecosystem-based risk management handbook (2013).pdf
