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With the unprecedented growth in economic activities relating to the ocean economy, the need for a sustainable concept where socioeconomic development can occur without environmental degradation is widely recognised. This is manifested at the global level by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which provides the basic global framework for ocean governance (United Nations 1982). Since then, the ocean economy has continued to grow alongside our need for food, energy, transportation and recreation from the ocean. Existing ocean industries expand while new ones appear. At the same time, new challenges are emerging as a result of climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution and extractive activities. Our ocean is now facing these pressures at unprecedented rates and magnitudes. The mismatch between the drive for short- term economic gain versus long-term prosperity and a healthy, resilient ocean is increasingly apparent. As a result, we see a pressing need for holistic, knowledge- based and ecosystem-based approaches to ocean management. Integrated ocean management (IOM) is such an approach.
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Abbreviations
- ABNJ:
-
Areas beyond national jurisdiction
- BBNJ:
-
Marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
- CCA:
-
Climate change adaptation
- CTI:
-
Coral Triangle Initiative
- CTI-CFF:
-
Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security
- EBA:
-
Ecosystem-based adaptation
- EBM:
-
Ecosystem-based management
- EEZ:
-
Exclusive economic zone
- FAO:
-
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
- GEF:
-
Global Environment Facility
- ICES:
-
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- ICM:
-
Integrated coastal management
- ICZM:
-
Integrated coastal zone management
- IMO:
-
International Maritime Organization
- IOM:
-
Integrated ocean management
- IOC:
-
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)
- IPCC:
-
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- ISA:
-
International Seabed Authority
- MPA:
-
Marine protected area
- MSP:
-
Marine spatial planning
- MSY:
-
Maximum sustainable yield
- NEAFC:
-
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
- NGO:
-
Nongovernmental organisation
- OSPAR:
-
Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
- PICES:
-
The North Pacific Marine Science Organization
- SAMOA:
-
SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action
- SDG:
-
Sustainable Development Goal
- SIDS:
-
Small island developing states
- RPOA:
-
Regional plan of action
- UNCLOS:
-
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNDP:
-
United Nations Development Programme
- UNEP:
-
United Nations Environment Programme
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