Current approaches and future opportunities for climate-smart protected areas

Published: April 7, 2025

Language: Английский

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Marine spatial planning and marine protected area planning are not the same and both are key for sustainability in a changing ocean

npj Ocean Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: May 15, 2025

Marine spatial planning (MSP) and marine protected area (MPA) are two distinct area-based management processes that often conflated. While engaging in MPA is crucially important for biodiversity conservation localized sustainable use, it cannot bring the benefits larger scale MSP can deliver. Confusing lead not only to missed opportunities support ocean sustainability, but also inefficiencies even conflict. Here, we clearly define distinguish each approach, then discuss optimise synergies, especially under rapidly changing climate. efforts by taking broader context into account, while integrating allows maintenance of health-always a core goal management.

Language: Английский

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A call to strengthen international collaboration to assess climate change effects in polar regions

PLOS Climate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3(10), P. e0000495 - e0000495

Published: Oct. 4, 2024

Climate change is exerting complex and transformative effects in the Arctic Antarctic; regions that are essential to global climate, biodiversity, sustainable futures. Given polar regions’ roles Earth’s system, a robust, coordinated, innovative strategy monitor manage climate needed. Insufficient baseline data, inconsistent international collaboration, short-term financing obstacles effectively these changes. This hinders our understanding of biodiversity shifts, their implications for food security, mitigation. Confronting impacts will require interdisciplinary collaboration genuine participation nations, including Indigenous communities. sentiment includes facilitating cooperation address scientific objectives despite political tensions. Additional recommendations include establishing regular requirements track progress based on available science, optimizing use existing infrastructure resources, enhancing data sharing practices, securing long-term sustain research. While pan-Antarctic pan-Arctic initiatives present useful strategies, not silver bullet. They do, however, provide starting point further work. Ultimately, by building upon harnessing successful components, we can limitations or fragmented studies. We outline tools resources research, examples collaborative efforts build upon, knowledge systems valuable this undertaking.

Language: Английский

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Ocean planning and conservation in the age of climate change: a roundtable discussion

Integrative Organismal Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Synopsis Over recent years, recognition of the need to develop climate-smart marine spatial planning (MSP) has gained momentum globally. In this roundtable discussion, we use a question-and-answer format leverage diverse perspectives and voices involved in study sustainable MSP conservation under global environmental social change. We intend dialogue serve as stepping stone toward developing ocean initiatives that are sustainable, equitable, climate-resilient around globe.

Language: Английский

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Forging ahead: Climate-smart maritime spatial planning for the future

Marine Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106503 - 106503

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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