Another policy brief has been published by #GES4SEAS. It is about how healthy oceans relate to healthy societies. This was the topic of our very first #MOOC about ocean #health.
See the policy brief here:
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/19201997
If you want to revisit the first MOOC, you can do it here:
🔗 https://www.ges4seas.eu/mooc-1/
This Policy Brief supports all marine practitioners, those who devise and apply policy and those affected by the policies, who need to show that the seas should remain healthy. This must be both for nature, by supporting the ecological structure and functioning, and for humans who can continue obtaining goods and benefits from the seas. It gives existing and new approaches and methods which focus on healthy oceans. It furthermore emphasises how practitioners should define natural and societal health and focus on the metrics available for determining whether or not management reaches these as a goal.
In #MOOC 4 about tipping points #TIPP we explored the importance of "why it is best not to reach them". The #GES4SEAS project has now published a policy brief on this topic:
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/19189962
Why tipping points are important when managing marine systems?
Practitioners are faced with managing marine ecosystems and their changes due to human activities and their resulting pressures. Those systems may have an ability to assimilate and resist change and/or a resilience to rebound from the effects of the stressors. As such, environmental managers need to know when that assimilative capacity of the system has been exceeded, i.e. the tipping point, when the system moves to an alternative state, from which returning to the original state is unlikely. Hence, environmental managers need to understand such trajectories of change and when and how such tipping points occur and their consequences.
Dr Angel Borja
GES4SEAS MOOCs