The
challenge in supporting enhanced and sustainable uses of the marine domain is to
enable current and future growth in the blue economy, and the associated
development of coastal livelihoods, while equally supporting sustainable social,
economic and environmental outcomes. This challenge explicitly involves managing
human impacts on the earth's marine and coastal systems, and managing the
feedback of these impacts on coastal communities, industries, stakeholders,
society in general. To fully address this topic, an evaluation of marine
socio-ecological systems is warranted. Exploration of tools to specifically evaluate
these socio-ecological systems is needed, timely, and has not yet systematically
been done.
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