Management Analysis of an Internationally Shared Waterbody: The Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem
Abstract
Internationally shared waterbodies face a difficult set of managemment challenges,
and
many are being exploited at unsustainable rates. This report looks at the United Nations
Environment Program’s Regional Seas program and the Large Marine Ecosystem (LME)
concept, which have been developed as management tools for improving the sustainability
of transboundary marine ecosystems. The Yellow Sea LME is possibly the most intensively
exploited and degraded LME worldwide. Six management options were reviewed using criteria
developed to discover the best path towards sustainable marine resource use. The most
promising option is to combine an expanded version of the current programs with a
community-based management component to ensure quicker implementation of programs
and to increase community involvement. International management plans of shared areas
are extremely difficult
to put in place in a way that satisfies all constituents as well as meets all goals,
combining the use of tools such as ecosystem and community based management may be
most effective at achieving project goals.
Type
Master's projectSubject
Large marine ecosystemSustainable marine resources
International waterbodies
Community-based management
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Skilbred, Jennifer Dianne (2006). Management Analysis of an Internationally Shared Waterbody: The Yellow Sea Large Marine
Ecosystem. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/105.Collections
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