TY - JOUR
T1 - Detecting critical choke points for achieving Good Environmental Status in European seas
AU - Potts, Tavis
AU - O'Higgins, Tim
AU - Brennan, Ruth
AU - Cinnirella , Sergio
AU - Brandt , Urs Steiner
AU - Suarez De Vivero, Juan Luis
AU - van Beusekom, Justus
AU - Troost, Tinke
AU - Paltriguera, Lucille
AU - Gunduz Hosgor, Ayse
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Choke points are social, cultural, political, institutional, or psychological obstructions of social-ecological systems that constrain progress toward an environmental objective. Using a soft systems methodology, different types of chokes points were identified in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the Baltic, and the North and Mediterranean seas. The choke points were of differing types: cultural and political choke points were identified in Barra and the Mediterranean, respectively, whereas the choke points in the North Sea and Baltic Sea were dependent on differing values toward the mitigation of eutrophication. We conclude with suggestions to identify and address choke points.
AB - Choke points are social, cultural, political, institutional, or psychological obstructions of social-ecological systems that constrain progress toward an environmental objective. Using a soft systems methodology, different types of chokes points were identified in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the Baltic, and the North and Mediterranean seas. The choke points were of differing types: cultural and political choke points were identified in Barra and the Mediterranean, respectively, whereas the choke points in the North Sea and Baltic Sea were dependent on differing values toward the mitigation of eutrophication. We conclude with suggestions to identify and address choke points.
KW - marine policy
KW - systems science
KW - Marine Strategy Framework Directive
KW - marine sustainability
KW - soft systems methodolgy
U2 - 10.5751/ES-07280-200129
DO - 10.5751/ES-07280-200129
M3 - Article
SN - 1708-3087
VL - 20
JO - Ecology and Society
JF - Ecology and Society
IS - 1
M1 - 29
ER -