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The long and winding road of the ecosystem approach into marine environmental policies

The long and winding road of the ecosystem approach into marine environmental policies Carleton Ray wrote in one of his AQC Editorials about the limitations and benefits of coastal and marine spatial planning (Ray, ). In his editorial, he, along with others that he refers to, recognizes that spatial planning should become an important entry point into ecosystem‐based management (EBM) wherein the ecosystem is the focus (McLeod and Leslie, ; Ray, ). He also asks whether the increasingly demanding global human population will allow coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) to respond to the needs of ecosystems when challenged by a wide variety of human offshore activities. What will become of Bambi when Bambi meets Godzilla? His concerns and questions are well justified. The way spatial planning is to be applied in the world's oceans is right now being forged. I would like to pick up on this subject in this editorial and focus on how the ecosystem approach found its way into our marine environmental policies and on the data availability for applying this approach, i.e. for marine spatial planning. To build on Ray's metaphor, it is in Bambi's interest to be well prepared for how to apply the ecosystem based approach when Godzilla shows up and roars out his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1052-7613
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1099-0755
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10.1002/aqc.2313
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Abstract

Carleton Ray wrote in one of his AQC Editorials about the limitations and benefits of coastal and marine spatial planning (Ray, ). In his editorial, he, along with others that he refers to, recognizes that spatial planning should become an important entry point into ecosystem‐based management (EBM) wherein the ecosystem is the focus (McLeod and Leslie, ; Ray, ). He also asks whether the increasingly demanding global human population will allow coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) to respond to the needs of ecosystems when challenged by a wide variety of human offshore activities. What will become of Bambi when Bambi meets Godzilla? His concerns and questions are well justified. The way spatial planning is to be applied in the world's oceans is right now being forged. I would like to pick up on this subject in this editorial and focus on how the ecosystem approach found its way into our marine environmental policies and on the data availability for applying this approach, i.e. for marine spatial planning. To build on Ray's metaphor, it is in Bambi's interest to be well prepared for how to apply the ecosystem based approach when Godzilla shows up and roars out his

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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