The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social–ecological status of the Baltic Sea
Summary
Improving the health of coastal and open sea marine ecosystems represents a substantial challenge for sustainable marine resource management, since it requires balancing human benefits and impacts on the ocean. This challenge is often exacerbated by incomplete knowledge and lack of tools that measure ocean and coastal ecosystem health in a way that allows consistent monitoring of progress towards predefined management targets. The lack of such tools often limits capabilities to enact and enforce effective governance.
Link to centre authors:
Blenckner, Thorsten
Publication info: Blenckner, T., Moellmann, C., Lowndes, J.S., Griffiths, J.R., Campbell, E., De Cervo, A., Belgrano, A., Bostroem, C., Fleming, V., Frazier, M., Neuenfeldt, S., Niiranen, S., Nilsson, A., Ojaveer, H., Olsson, J., Palmloev, C.S., Quaas, M., Rickels, W., Sobek, A., Viitasalo, M., Wikstroem, S.A. & Halpern, B.S. 2021. The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social-ecological status of the Baltic Sea. People and Nature 3(2), 359–375.
