An Ecosystem Management Approach for the Santa Barbara Channel Islands
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Scientists have documented the general decline in the health of marine ecosystems. The human impacts on marine ecosystems are forcing resource agencies and scientists to rethink how society manages ocean and coastal systems. Since the 1960s, the scientific and intellectual basis of an ecosystem-based approach to manage and restore landscapes has been developing with state and federal resource agencies. With new data and insights, an ecosystem approach has been embraced by the Executive Office of the White House and 18 federal agencies. Similar views are increasingly evident at state and local government levels, as well as within the non-government sector. With the Channel Islands as a backdrop, this paper analyzes the role of science and values in the development of an ecosystem-based approach to marine systems. Even at the purely technical level, an ecosystem approach will require an integrated and adaptive approach that recognizes the social, cultural, economic, historical, ecological, and biogeographical character of particular marine systems.
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