Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.

ABSTRACT: The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) are required to ensure long-term effectiveness for safeguarding marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we review progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management and provide eight recommendations to expedite this process. Climate-smart management objectives should become the default for all protected areas, and made into an explicit international policy target. Furthermore, incentives to use more dynamic management tools would increase the climate change responsiveness of the MPA network as a whole. Gi

SUBMITTER: Tittensor DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881166 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature