Taking Action Against Ocean Acidification: A Review of Management and Policy Options |
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Authors: | Raphaël Billé Ryan Kelly Arne Biastoch Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb Dorothée Herr Fortunat Joos Kristy Kroeker Dan Laffoley Andreas Oschlies Jean-Pierre Gattuso |
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Institution: | 1. Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Sciences Po, 27 Rue Saint Guillaume, 75337, Paris Cedex 7, France 2. Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA 3. School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 4. GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany 5. Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 6. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland 7. Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland 8. Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis, Bodega Bay, CA, 94923, USA 10. Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 06230, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 9. Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS-INSU, BP 28, 06234, Villefranche-sur-Mer Cedex, France
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Abstract: | Ocean acidification has emerged over the last two decades as one of the largest threats to marine organisms and ecosystems. However, most research efforts on ocean acidification have so far neglected management and related policy issues to focus instead on understanding its ecological and biogeochemical implications. This shortfall is addressed here with a systematic, international and critical review of management and policy options. In particular, we investigate the assumption that fighting acidification is mainly, but not only, about reducing CO2 emissions, and explore the leeway that this emerging problem may open in old environmental issues. We review nine types of management responses, initially grouped under four categories: preventing ocean acidification; strengthening ecosystem resilience; adapting human activities; and repairing damages. Connecting and comparing options leads to classifying them, in a qualitative way, according to their potential and feasibility. While reducing CO2 emissions is confirmed as the key action that must be taken against acidification, some of the other options appear to have the potential to buy time, e.g. by relieving the pressure of other stressors, and help marine life face unavoidable acidification. Although the existing legal basis to take action shows few gaps, policy challenges are significant: tackling them will mean succeeding in various areas of environmental management where we failed to a large extent so far. |
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