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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2008 65(8):1381-1386; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn153
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Crown Copyright © 2008. Published by Oxford Journals on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. All rights reserved

This article appears in the following ICES Journal of Marine Science issue: Marine Environmental Indicators: Utility in Meeting Regulatory Needs [View the issue table of contents]

Environmental indicators: utility in meeting regulatory needs. An overview

Hubert L. Rees1, Jeffrey L. Hyland2, Ketil Hylland3, Colleen S. L. Mercer Clarke4, John C. Roff5 and Suzanne Ware6

1 c/o Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK
2 NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, 219 Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, SC 29412–9110, USA
3 Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
4 Interdisciplinary Studies, Dalhousie University, c/o 495 Baringham Place, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2T 2J4
5 Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 2R6
6 Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK

Correspondence to K. Hylland: tel: +47 22857315; fax: +47 22854438; e-mail: k.d.e.hylland{at}bio.uio.no

Rees, H. L., Hyland, J. L., Hylland, K., Mercer Clarke, C. S. L., Roff, J. C., and Ware, S. 2008. Environmental indicators: utility in meeting regulatory needs. An overview. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 1381–1386.

The utility of environmental indicators in meeting regulatory needs was addressed at an international symposium held in November 2007. This paper summarizes the attributes and range of uses of indicators and highlights key points from theme sessions and a workshop on unifying concepts. The symposium attracted regulators and scientists, who supported the need to promote dialogue during the construction of indicator-based management frameworks and at key stages towards operational use. Scientists expressed willingness to engage with the wider societal context for indicator applications, which is essential to the development of ecosystem-based management. For the latter to be effective, more effort is needed to combine indicators with thresholds to guide management actions and, in the process, to assess the full range of consequences of non-compliance. There are clear benefits to periodic interdisciplinary reviews of progress in this area, and a follow-up event with a regulatory emphasis is suggested.

Keywords: ecosystem management, environmental indicators, marine strategy, overview, regulation


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