European Environmental Management: Moving to an Ecosystem Approach
European Environmental Management: Moving to an Ecosystem Approach
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DOI：
10.1002/ieam.5630020114
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Galloway, Tamara S.
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作者：
Apitz, Sabine E.;Elliott, Michael;Galloway, Tamara S.
欧盟已经通过了多项环境指令、战略、建议和协议，要求从基于地方或区域的法规转向更加基于生态系统的整体环境管理。未来十年，欧洲的环境管理可能会更多地关注生物和生态条件，而不是物理和化学条件，生态系统健康将成为监管和管理决策的中心。在欧洲成功实施这一新的生态系统管理和战略评估流程将需要整合监管和技术信息，以及欧盟成员国之间、机构之间和跨学科的广泛合作，达到前所未有的程度。它还需要做出广泛的努力，使当前的环境评估和管理系统适应流域和生态系统层面、跨介质和栖息地，并考虑比目前大多数风险评估所解决的更广泛的对生态系统状况的影响。这需要跨多个时空尺度的经济、生态、水文和其他过程的理解、整合和交流。本文讨论了这些挑战，并描述了一些有助于在欧洲实现综合生态系统管理的研究举措。
The European Union has adopted several environmental directives, strategies, recommendations, and agreements that require a shift from local-or regional-based regulations to more ecosystem-based, holistic environmental management. Over the next decade, environmental management in Europe is likely to focus more on biological and ecological conditions rather than physical and chemical conditions, with ecosystem health at the center of regulation and management decision making. Successful implementation of this new ecosystem management and strategic assessment process in Europe will require the integration of regulatory and technical information and extensive collaboration from among European Union member countries, between agencies, and across disciplines to an unprecedented degree. It will also require extensive efforts to adapt current systems of environmental assessment and management to the basin and ecosystem level, across media and habitats, and considering a much broader set of impacts on ecosystem status than is currently addressed in most risk assessments. This will require the understanding, integration, and communication of economic, ecological, hydrological, and other processes across many spatial and temporal scales. This article discusses these challenges and describes some of the research initiatives that will help achieve integrated ecosystem management in Europe.