Introducing the H2020 AQUACROSS project: Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies

Lago, Manuel Jesús Dolz; Boteler, Benjamin; Rouillard, Josselin; Abhold, Katrina; Jähnig, Sonja C.; Iglesias-Campos, Alejandro; Delacámara, Gonzalo; Piet, G.J.; Hein, Thomas; Nogueira, António J.A.; Lillebø, Ana I.; Strosser, P.; Robinson, Leonie A.; Wever, Aaike De; O’Higgins, Tim; Schlüter, Maja; Liliana, TÖRÖK; Reichert, Peter; Ham, Chantal van; Villa, Ferdinando; McDonald, Hugh J.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.076

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“…Further to these conceptual approaches, a number of policy initiatives have sparked the development of a wide range of assessment frameworks and decision support systems for EBM (Harvey et al 2017;Link and Browman 2017;Alexander and Haward 2019;Lago et al 2019). Yet, a major challenge remains as to the design of an operational framework that links, in an efficient way, the assessment of biodiversity and ecological processes and their meaningful consideration in decision-making processes (and not just in policy making), despite recent progress (Langhans et al 2018;Gómez et al 2017;Do Yun et al 2017).…”

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Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice

Delacámara

O’Higgins

Lago

et al. 2020

Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

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Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM), intended to restore, enhance and/or protect the resilience of ecosystems, is gaining momentum. It is often argued, though, that some of the difficulties to provide practical guidance to conduct EBM stems from the lack of a clear definition. EBM emphasises on factoring in complex linkages in social-ecological systems; dealing with adequate scales (both time and space wise); promoting adaptive management of complex and dynamic systems; and adopting integrated assessment and management frameworks. This chapter shows, on one side, challenges to build consensus on a definition that is both conceptually and theoretically sound as well as practicable; on the other, the enabling factors that make EBM actually happen.

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Section: Disambiguation Of the Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice

Delacámara

O’Higgins

Lago

et al. 2020

Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

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“…Boyes et al 2016), evidence for real improvements to the quality of European marine ecosystems is limited. There is increasing recognition that the sectoral policies for the environment and natural resource management within Europe are failing when it comes to the delivery of biodiversity objectives (Pe'er et al 2019;O'Higgins 2017;Rouillard et al 2018) and hence the requirement to develop more holistic approaches to European EBM (Lago et al 2019). The question then arises, if one were to develop a conceptual framework for EBM a priori, what lessons can be learned from the DAPSI(W)R(M).…”

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From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’

Elliott

O’Higgins

2020

Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

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The complexity of interactions and feedbacks between human activities and ecosystems can make the analysis of such social-ecological systems intractable. In order to provide a common means to understand and analyse the links between social and ecological process within these systems, a range of analytical frameworks have been developed and adopted. Following decades of practical experience in implementation, the Driver Pressure State Impact Response (DPSIR) conceptual framework has been adapted and redeveloped to become the D(A)PSI(W)R(M). This paper describes in detail the D(A)PSI(W)R(M) and its development from the original DPSIR conceptual frame. Despite its diverse application and demonstrated utility, a number of inherent shortcomings are identified. In particular the DPSIR model family tend to be best suited to individual environmental pressures and human activities and their resulting environmental problems, having a limited focus on the supply and demand of benefits from nature. We present a derived framework, the "Butterfly", a more holistic approach designed to expand the concept. The "Butterfly" model, moves away from the centralised accounting framework approach while more-fully incorporating the complexity of social and ecological systems, and the supply and demand of ecosystem services, which are central to human-environment interactions.

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“…With this special issue we advance and, therewith, foster the understanding and application of EBM in aquatic ecosystems by showcasing selected results of AQUACROSSan EU-funded Horizon 2020 project (Lago et al, 2019). Finished in November 2018, AQUACROSS aimed to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience of aquatic ecosystems, managed as a continuum, and to stop the loss of aquatic biodiversity in line with the EU2020 Biodiversity Strategy as well as to ensure the ongoing provision of ESs.…”

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“…The special issue opens with Lago et al (2019), who describe the aims and approaches of AQUACROSS, its conceptual framework and case studies across Europe (Fig. 1).…”

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The potential of ecosystem-based management to integrate biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision in aquatic ecosystems

Langhans

Jähnig

Lago

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Global aquatic biodiversity keeps declining rapidly, despite international efforts providing a variety of policies and legislations that identify goals for, and give directions to protecting the world's aquatic fauna and flora. With the H2020 project AQUACROSS, we have made an unprecedented effort to unify policy strategies, knowledge, and management concepts of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems to support the achievement of the targets set by the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. AQUACROSS has embraced the concept of ecosystembased management (EBM), which approaches environmental management from a social-ecological system perspective to protect biodiversity and to sustainably harvest ecosystem services. This special issue includes contributions resulting from AQUACROSS, which either tackle selected EBM challenges from a theoretical point of view or apply EBM in one of the selected case studies across Europe. In this article, we introduce relevant topics, address the most important lessons learnt, and suggest where research should go with aquatic EBM. We hope that this special issue will foster and facilitate the uptake of EBM in aquatic ecosystems and, therewith, provide the on-ground applications needed for evaluating EBM's utility to safeguard aquatic biodiversity.

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Introducing the H2020 AQUACROSS project: Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice

Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice

From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’

The potential of ecosystem-based management to integrate biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision in aquatic ecosystems

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