Monitoring and Assessment of Marine Environmental Pressures
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Environmental Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 14104
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ocean is vital to life on Earth. The many ecosystem services that it provides, related to provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural aspects, are also fundamental to the Blue Economy. However, human activities are affecting the marine environment in an unprecedented manner and, when coupled with the consequences of the increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases, it is clear that the ocean is under huge pressure. Declining biodiversity, deoxygenation, increased temperatures, a reduction in pH, and alterations in ocean currents will have consequences.
It is imperative that relevant monitoring and assessments of the ocean, connecting human activities with pressures on marine ecosystems, are prioritised. This requires national and international collaboration as well as attention directed towards the combined environmental, social, and economic consequences of either not responding to the assessments or not undertaking the relevant monitoring over a long enough time period. Common indicators and thresholds will permit assessments of wider sea areas, while new indicators are required to enable consideration to be given to the cumulative effects of multiple human pressures. As the seas become busier, there is a need for marine planning to optimise the benefits of the sea while ensuring that these benefits will be available to future generations.
Fundamental to all this is the delivery of the correct monitoring and assessments that identify the main pressures, can detect environmental change, and ensure that the cause of the environmental change can be characterised, as well as showing whether or not the actions taken have delivered the desired outcomes.
In the above context, this Special Issue invites original scientific contributions that advance our understanding of the assessment of human activities on marine ecosystems and the consequence of the pressures associated with these activities, both in isolation, but also as one of several pressures. Where appropriate, the environmental, social, and economic consequences should be discussed, as should the need for the outcomes to have direct traction with decision makers.
Research articles, review articles, and case studies are welcome.
Prof. Colin Moffat
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Environment
- Human activities
- Pressures
- Economic consequences
- Social consequences
- Monitoring
- Assessment/tools/methods
- Ecosystem services/natural capital
- Blue economy
- Cumulative pressures
- Detecting and identifying reason for change of state
- Marine
- Coastal
- Deep water
- Climate
- Policy/science communication
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