Safiq, Alexandrea Dagmar. Integrating sustainable natural resource management and conservation objectives: approaches to ecosystem based management. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-vk84-0866
DescriptionEcosystem based management (EBM) is a wholistic approach to natural resource management whereby interactions with an ecosystem, including humans are considered in management rather than considering single issues, species or ecosystem services in isolation. Historically, natural resources were managed under a single management paradigm. However, when ecosystems are managed by their individual components important complexities and nuances in socio-ecological dynamics are lost. Given the recent shift to an ecosystem based approach, much research is needed on the integration of social and ecological components of ecosystems. My research contributes to this literature by (1) investigating the definition and implementation of ecosystem based fisheries management (EBFM) in the northeast and mid-Atlantic united states, (2) exploring biocultural homogenization of coral reef fish assemblages off the coast of Florida and (3) conducting a systematic review of interactions between fisheries and marine mammals at a global scale.