Stoeckl, Natalie;
Adams, Vanessa;
Baird, Rachel;
Boothroyd, Anne;
Costanza, Robert;
Finau, Glenn;
Fulton, Elizabeth A;
... Yamazaki, Satoshi; + view all
(2024)
Governance challenges to protect globally important ecosystem services of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.
ICES Journal of Marine Science
, 82
(1)
, Article fsae163. 10.1093/icesjms/fsae163.
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Abstract
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (A&SO) has a unique environment that plays an important role in the Earth’s life-support systems. It has no indigenous human population but hosts around 5000 researchers and is visited by more than 100 000 tourists per year. In this paper, we describe the biophysical processes that create the region’s ecosystem services, outlining their related governance systems within the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), and show the global distribution of the ecosystem service beneficiaries. These services clearly support populations across the world but are endangered by anthropogenic activities, which the current place-based ATS is not empowered to control. We discuss whether it is possible to use insights from Elinor Ostrom’s work on managing the commons, including her eight core design principles and the idea of Common Asset Trusts, to better harness efforts to protect ALL of the region’s ecosystem services. We note that many existing arrangements associated with the ATS are already well-aligned with Ostrom’s design principles but need to be expanded to better protect the globally important ecosystem services produced by A&SO.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Governance challenges to protect globally important ecosystem services of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/icesjms/fsae163 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https:// creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Physical Sciences, Fisheries, Marine & Freshwater Biology, Oceanography, Antarctic governance, anthropogenic climate change, climate regulation, common asset trusts, CLIMATE-CHANGE, MARINE ECOSYSTEM, CARBON, DRIVEN, IMPLEMENTATION, CONSERVATION, EMISSIONS, FISHERIES, INCREASE, TRAGEDY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205104 |
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