Apitz Sabine E, Elliott Michael, Fountain Michelle, Galloway Tamara S
SEA Environmental Decisions, 1 South Cottages, The Ford, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire St11 2AT, United Kingdom.
Integr Environ Assess Manag. 2006 Jan;2(1):80-5.
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.
欧盟已通过多项环境指令、战略、建议和协议，这些要求从基于地方或区域的法规转向更多基于生态系统的整体环境管理。在未来十年，欧洲的环境管理可能会更多地关注生物和生态状况而非物理和化学状况，将生态系统健康作为监管和管理决策的核心。要在欧洲成功实施这种新的生态系统管理和战略评估过程，将需要以前所未有的程度整合监管和技术信息，并在欧盟成员国之间、各机构之间以及跨学科领域进行广泛协作。这还需要做出大量努力，使当前的环境评估和管理系统适应流域和生态系统层面，跨越不同介质和栖息地，并考虑比大多数当前风险评估中所涉及的对生态系统状况的更广泛影响。这将需要理解、整合并沟通许多空间和时间尺度上的经济、生态、水文及其他过程。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倡议。
