Local and regional experiences with assessing and fostering ocean health

Blasiak, Robert; Pacheco, Erich; Furuya, Ken; Golden, Christopher D.; Jauharee, A. Riyaz; Natori, Yoji; Saito, Hiroaki; Sinan, Hussain; Tanaka, T.; Yagi, Nobuyuki; Yiu, Evonne

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.05.011

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“…Interdisciplinary cooperation increases the potential of OHI at the local and regional levels. They consisted of a multi-stakeholder approach, social factors, and the accuracy of regional and global data [18]. Moreover, research on enhancing the OHI calculation method was conducted in 2016, particularly when calculating environmental parameters with frequent data gaps.…”

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A review of ocean health index research: Towards the development of its dynamic model in Indonesia

Rintaka,

Kurniawan,

Radiarta

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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Many studies use Ocean Health Index (OHI) calculations on global and regional scales. There was still a dearth of research that used a framework to examine the local level. Meanwhile, policies to achieve environmental management objectives for marine ecosystems will be more applicable locally. This study aims to discover the most appropriate benchmark for OHI calculations on a local scale, namely by reviewing manuscripts from 2012 to 2022 based on geography, publication field, resolution, and data sources. The data were used to determine benchmarks for OHI calculations based on manuscripts published. One thousand five hundred manuscripts were discovered and verified via the Clarivate Analytics Web of Knowledge. We discovered 26 manuscripts each: 12 global, 11 regional, and three local. The trend of manuscripts increased in 2014, 2016, and 2021. Most manuscripts were published in journals focused on multidisciplinary natural resources management and environmental science. The rest of the manuscripts were published in earth and planetary science, ecological science, environment management, biochemistry, and energy journals. The widespread use of OHI requires each country to create comparable measurement techniques by changing the OHI to include factors and indications relevant to each country, including Indonesia.

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A review of ocean health index research: Towards the development of its dynamic model in Indonesia

Rintaka,

Kurniawan,

Radiarta

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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“…OHI was developed as a comprehensive framework to assess human-ocean ecosystems and evaluate how successfully and sustainably humans are obtaining the range of benefits that the ocean can deliver. It has been applied at scales including global (Halpern et al , 2015a, LME , national (Blasiak et al 2016, Selig et al 2015, Tsemel et al 2014) and subnational (Elfes et al 2014 Benefits assessed include most tangible (food, natural products, clean water, jobs, revenue etc.) and intangible (sense of place) things that people expect from a healthy ocean.…”

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“…Tsemel et al 2014; see also Table 1 in Lowndes et al 2015 and www. ohi-science.org/projects;and Blasiak et al 2016).…”

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“…7 maps overall OHI scores for the high seas areas shown in Fig. 6. • Eliminate illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing by assigning mandatory IMO numbers to all ships, banning transshipment of IUU catches at sea, implementing an international fishing treaty, and deflagging and denying port entry to IUU fishing vessels • Reduce overfishing by ending harmful high seas subsidies • Strengthen governance by creating an UNCLOS implementation agreement on high seas marine biodiversity, creating a UN special representative for oceans and other measures High Seas (Fig 6) degradation is frequently lamented and many of its aspects are reviewed by the UN World Ocean Assessment (UNWOA1 2015), but the only quantitative assessment to date was done by the Ocean Health Index (OHI 2014), which assessed their OTHER OCEAN BIOMES Blasiak et al (2016) call for identification of other important and vulnerable ocean biomes where assessment and management could provide significant benefits for conservation and human well-being. For example, UNESCO (2016) proposed extending the 1972 World Heritage Convention to include sites of outstanding universal value in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) and detailed possible processes for doing so, but mechanisms for management, including enforcement and periodic assessment, would need to be constructed..…”

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Navigating the seascape of ocean management: waypoints on the voyage toward sustainable use

Katona¹,

Polsenberg²,

Lowndes³

et al. 2017

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Some societies have sustainably managed their local marine resources for centuries using traditional methods, but we are only beginning to learn how to do it at larger scales, including globally. A broad, deep and constantly growing body of ocean knowledge has developed, adding many new concepts, perspectives, management models and analytical tools into the knowledge base in a relatively short period. Such rapid growth has created a potentially confusing mash-up of ideas, acronyms, The purpose of this paper is to assist policy makers, marine managers and those considering careers in this area by providing a short history of ocean management, its conceptual foundation, frameworks for modern management and examples of its application at different scales. Extensive literature exists to supplement the summarized information we present.We highlight the following terms as navigational markers through the 'seascape' 1 of marine management rhetoric: sustainability, ecosystem approach, ecosystem-based management, natural capital, ecosystem services, integrated ecosystem assessment, the causal framework DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses) and its variants, indicators and reference points, marine area planning, marine spatial management (including decision support tools), adaptive ocean management and dynamic ocean management. We also point out the important roles of marine initiatives such as Blue Economy, the Ocean Health Index, Large Marine Ecosystems, Seascapes, Protected Areas and others. Understanding the similarities, differences, relationships and synergies among these activities increases the likelihood of achieving successful management processes or solutions. 1We use 'seascape' (lower case) to describe the panorama of concepts, acronyms, techniques, tools and regulations germane to marine management. 'Seascape' and 'Oceanscape' (upper case) signify specific programs for integrated management at large-scales.

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Climate change vulnerability and ocean governance

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2019

Predicting Future Oceans

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Local and regional experiences with assessing and fostering ocean health

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

A review of ocean health index research: Towards the development of its dynamic model in Indonesia

A review of ocean health index research: Towards the development of its dynamic model in Indonesia

Navigating the seascape of ocean management: waypoints on the voyage toward sustainable use

Climate change vulnerability and ocean governance

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