Making sense of marine management – The ten-tenets revisited
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The so-called ten-tenets were proposed over a decade ago to indicate actions to achieve sustainable and successful marine management. These indicated that marine management actions should be Ecologically sustainable , Technologically feasible , Economically viable , Socially tolerable / desirable , Legally defensible , Administratively achievable , Politically expedient , Ethically defensible / morally correct , Culturally inclusive and Effectively communicable . These concepts are revisited here to show a continuum from an Ecosystem-Based Approach (EBA, setting the priorities and polices), to Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM, operationalising the approach by management and governance) and then using tools, including technological and economic instruments, now termed Ecosystem-Based Technical Measures (EBTM). This shows the way the tenets overlap while the underlying definitions still hold for holistic marine management and are valuable in prioritising marine management actions. We emphasise that the tenets for the overarching ecological and communication aspects should be weighted differently but that taken together all other tenets would be weighted equally although they could have a weighting depending on their user. For example, the economic tenet may be weighted highly in economically-challenging times and the cultural tenet in areas with indigenous peoples. • The ten-tenets of successful and sustainable marine management are presented. • The ecological and communication tenets have a greater weighting than the others. • The tenets create a holistic system for marine management. • The tenets occur within a continuum starting with Ecosystem-based Approach. • This leads to Ecosystem-based Management and Ecosystem-based Technical Measures.
Source: Marine Pollution Bulletin
Authors: Michael Elliott, Roland Cormier, Ángel Borja
Institutions: University of Hull, AZTI
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,740
OpenAlex ID: W4413111789