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  • Blenckner, ThorstenStockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre (author)

The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social-ecological status of the Baltic Sea

  • Article/chapterEnglish2021

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  • 2021-01-19
  • Wiley,2021

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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/305291
  • https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/305291URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10178DOI
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444924URI
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195420URI

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  • 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. We introduce the Baltic Health Index (BHI) as a transparent, collaborative and repeatable assessment tool. The Index complements existing, more ecological-oriented, approaches by including a human dimension on the status of the Baltic Sea, an ecosystem impacted by multiple anthropogenic pressures and governed by a multitude of comprehensive national and international policies. Using a large amount of social-ecological data available, we assessed the health of the Baltic Sea for nine goals that represent the status towards set targets, for example, clean waters, biodiversity, food provision, natural products extraction and tourism. Our results indicate that the overall health of the Baltic Sea is suboptimal (a score of 76 out of 100), and a substantial effort is required to reach the management objectives and associated targets. Subregionally, the lowest BHI scores were measured for carbon storage, contaminants and lasting special places (i.e. marine protected areas), albeit with large spatial variation. Overall, the likely future status of all goals in the BHI averaged for the entire Baltic Sea is better than the present status, indicating a positive trend towards a healthier Baltic Sea. However, in some Baltic Sea basins, the trend for specific goals was decreasing, highlighting locations and issues that should be the focus of management priorities. The BHI outcomes can be used to identify both pan-Baltic and subregional scale management priorities and to illustrate the interconnectedness between goals linked by cumulative pressures. Hence, the information provided by the BHI tool and its further development will contribute towards the fulfilment of the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainability Development Goals. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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  • Mollmann, C.Univ Hamburg, Ctr Earth Syst Res & Sustainabil CEN, Inst Marine Ecosyst & Fisheries Sci, Hamburg, Germany. (author)
  • Lowndes, J. S.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Natl Ctr Ecol Anal & Synth, Santa Barbara, CA USA. (author)
  • Griffiths, Jennifer R.Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, USA(Swepub:su)jgrif (author)
  • Campbell, EleanoreStockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre(Swepub:su)elca5845 (author)
  • De Cervo, AndreaStockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre(Swepub:su)ande1509 (author)
  • Belgrano, AndreaGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Havsmiljöinstitutet,Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment,Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Inst Marine Res, Dept Aquat Resources, Lysekil, Sweden.;Univ Gothenburg, Swedish Inst Marine Environm SIME, Gothenburg, Sweden.(Swepub:gu)xbelga (author)
  • Bostrom, C.Abo Akad Univ, Environm & Marine Biol, Turku, Finland. (author)
  • Fleming, V.Finnish Environm Inst SYKE, Helsinki, Finland. (author)
  • Frazier, M.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Natl Ctr Ecol Anal & Synth, Santa Barbara, CA USA. (author)
  • Neuenfeldt, S.Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Inst Aquat Resources, Lyngby, Denmark. (author)
  • Niiranen, SusaStockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre(Swepub:su)sniir (author)
  • Nilsson, Annika,Universitetslektor,1971-Uppsala universitet,Juridiska institutionen(Swepub:uu)annil676 (author)
  • Ojaveer, H.Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Inst Aquat Resources, Lyngby, Denmark.;Univ Tartu, Parnu Coll, Parnu, Estonia. (author)
  • Olsson, J.Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Inst Coastal Res, Dept Aquat Resources, Oregrund, Sweden. (author)
  • Palmlov, C. S.Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för miljövetenskap (author)
  • Quaas, M.German Ctr Integrat Biodivers Res iDiv, Leipzig, Germany. (author)
  • Rickels, W.Kiel Inst World Econ, Kiel, Germany. (author)
  • Sobek, AnnaStockholms universitet,Institutionen för miljövetenskap(Swepub:su)subek (author)
  • Viitasalo, M.Finnish Environm Inst SYKE, Helsinki, Finland. (author)
  • Wikström, Sofia A.Stockholms universitet,Stockholms universitets Östersjöcentrum(Swepub:su)swiks (author)
  • Halpern, B. S.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Natl Ctr Ecol Anal & Synth, Santa Barbara, CA USA.;Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Bren Sch Environm Sci & Management, Santa Barbara, CA USA. (author)
  • Stockholms universitetStockholm Resilience Centre (creator_code:org_t)

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