NOAA’S Ecosystem Approach to Management

摘要: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Ecosystem Approaches to Management (EAM) is a holistic, evolutionary management strategy designed improve the productivity of coastal marine ecosystems. NOAA has developed vision for an ecosystem approach management, detailed its mission outcomes sustainable use nation’s resources. This incorporates collaboration among NOAA, other federal, state, tribal, local agencies, NGOs, academic business communities. An shifts current practices from sectoral, short-term perspective s, with humans independent ecosystems ecosystem-based, long-term perspectives integral will be geographically specific, located in 10 recently delineated US regional based on Large Marine model. work further delineate sub-ecoregions, address inland boundary issues watersheds diadromous fish habitat, as well issues. defined five EAM strategies: adaptive, incremental, specifying areas, accounts knowledge uncertainties, balances diverse societal objectives. In order understand health socioeconomic status trends these ecosystems, agency developing suite national level indicators. Over time, plans expand indicator have sub-regional set each ecosystem. NOAA’s future steps towards include improving internal integration coordination produce better products services, while collaborating partners begin process ecosystem-based management.