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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: societal and governing responses to global change in marine systems -- Part I Oyster farming systems under stress -- 1 Oyster farming in Matsushima Bay, Japan -- 2 Ocean acidification and Pacific oyster larval failures in the Pacific Northwest United States -- 3 Mass mortality of farmed oysters in France: bad responses and good results -- Part II Vulnerable mixed fisheries -- 4 Fisheries in Indonesia between livelihoods and environmental degradation: coping strategies in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi -- 5 The Baltic Sea, the Baltic Sea Action Plan and the challenge of adaptiveness -- Part III Coastal water quality issues -- 6 Management of the Amvrakikos Gulf massive fish mortality crisis: lessons learned from the death of 950 tons of farmed fish -- 7 The crisis management of a Chatonella fish kill within the semi-enclosed embayment of Maliakos Gulf, Greece -- 8 Clam harvesting in the Venice Lagoon, Italy -- 9 Case study of the regional ICM system introduced voluntarily by the prefectural government in Omura Bay, Japan -- 10 Conservation of the short-necked clam in Yokohama, Japan -- Part IV Overexploited and weakly governable fisheries -- 11 A balancing act: managing multiple pressures to fisheries and fish farming in the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando river system, Philippines -- 12 Threats of extreme events to the Bangladesh Sundarbans: vulnerabilities, responses and appraisal -- 13 Transition and development in the Jin-shanzui fishing village near Shanghai, China -- 14 Climate variability, overfishing and transformation in the small pelagics sector in South Africa -- 15 Oyster fishery in Rappahannock River, Chesapeake Bay, USA, East Coast

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: societal and governing responses to global change in marine systems; Part I Oyster farming systems under stress; 1 Oyster farming in Matsushima Bay, Japan; 2 Ocean acidification and Pacific oyster larval failures in the Pacific Northwest United States; 3 Mass mortality of farmed oysters in France: bad responses and good results; Part II Vulnerable mixed fisheries.

Managing for the Future: Understanding the Relative Roles of Climate and Fishing on Structure and Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems.-- 5 pages, 1 figure ; The UN declared the 2021–2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade). The Ocean Decade's vision is to "develop scientific knowledge, build infrastructure and foster relationships for a sustainable and healthy ocean." The Ocean Decade aims to achieve six societal outcomes: (1) A clean ocean, through identifying and removing sources of pollution; (2) A healthy and resilient ocean, with mapped and protected marine ecosystems; (3) A predicted ocean, enabling society to understand current and future ocean conditions; (4) A safe ocean, protecting people from ocean hazards; (5) A sustainably harvested ocean, providing food and resources for the blue economy; and (6) A transparent ocean, giving citizens equitable access to data, information and technologies. It also aims to provide concrete scientific support to coastal management, adaptation and restoration, marine spatial planning, marine protected areas, fisheries management, sustainable expansion of the blue economy, nationally determined contributions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), national ocean policies, development of national Research and Development (R&D), capacity development, and early warning systems. The Ocean Decade offers the ocean science community a unique opportunity to change the way we support sustainable development and galvanize ocean sciences for the future (Ryabinin et al., 2019). In addition, the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), gives the ocean science community an imperative to work toward a sustainable future for the ocean. We challenge the marine ecosystem modeling community to address how we: (i) enable ocean managers and decision-makers to use our science, (ii) communicate our science, and most importantly (iii) ensure co-design of our science to achieve sustainable development. For this, we define ecosystem models as those that span physical and human drivers of change in the full ecosystem from plankton to top predators ; Y-jS and MT-T have been partially funded by the Biodiversa and Belmont Forum project SOMBEE (BiodivScen programme, ANR contract N°ANR-18-EBI4-0003-01). MC and JS were funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 817578 (TRIATLAS project) and MC also received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 869300 (FutureMARES project). VC acknowledges support through NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2019-04901 ; Peer reviewed

In recent decades, scientists and practitioners have increasingly focused on identifying and codifying the best ways to manage activities in marine systems, leading to the development and implementation of concepts such as the social-ecological systems approach, ecosystem-based management, integrated management, marine spatial planning, participatory co-management, and the precautionary approach. To date, these concepts appear as separate entities: they have parallel literature streams; have been applied most often individually in attempts to improve governance and management; and in many ways, seem to be competing for attention. This patchwork of approaches may be hindering effective ocean governance. We propose that desirable features from these frameworks could be woven together to form the basis of more effective and equitable ocean governance arrangements across contexts, sectors, and scales. This article synthesizes the efforts of an IMBeR (Integrated Marine Biosphere Research Project) conference session and working group, that brought together experts in these diverse concepts with the objective of producing a synthesis of how they could be more effectively integrated for improved ocean sustainability outcomes. We reviewed and compared the concepts in terms of (a) the need to achieve a comprehensive suite of sustainability objectives, (b) similarities and differences in their scope, and (c) their place in practical management, policy and regulation. Achieving greater cross-sectoral integration, or a more holistic perspective on management for sustainability is at the core of each concept. All deal with aspects of governance and most, with improved participation in governance. The major differences in the origin and historical application of each concept are reflected in the degree of implicit or explicit focus given to different objectives of sustainability. Overall, the concepts are especially strong for ecological and institutional or governance considerations, moderately strong for economic aspects, and weakest for the social-cultural pillar of full spectrum sustainability. There is no panacea, and no emergent hierarchy among concepts. Some concepts fit better with top-down legislation-based efforts, others with more bottom-up stakeholder driven efforts. The selection of the core concepts for a situation will depend in a large part on which concepts are specified, or demand focus, in the legal and policy context of the situation (or area) of interest. No matter how influential or dominant a single concept might be, pragmatically, different concepts will be used in different areas, and there may always be the need for a combination of concepts and objectives woven together to achieve a cohesive quilt of sustainability. ; Peer reviewed