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Review article - Peer-reviewed, 2021

Linking Ocean's Benefits to People (OBP) with Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs)

Belgrano, Andrea; Villasante, Sebastian

Abstract

The fundamental challenge of the inclusion of the human dimension of the oceans in the Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) provides an opportunity for a transdisciplinary approach to create synergies between the current research by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We have highlighted the importance of ocean inequality as a critical aspect to consider to unlock current barriers to integrate social sciences in marine integrated assessments. To create bridges between them, we develop an Ocean's Benefits to People (OBP) framework that embraces the blue economy, equity, the UN SDGs goals and support an Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) for the oceans.

Keywords

ecosystem functioning; Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs); marine social-ecological- systems (SES); ocean equity; Ocean's Benefits to People (OBP)

Published in

Population Ecology
2021, Volume: 63, number: 1, pages: 102-107
Publisher: WILEY

    Sustainable Development Goals

    SDG14 Life below water
    SDG10 Reduced inequalities

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
    Ecology
    Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.12064

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/108208