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Abstract Submission No. | ABS-2022-01-0072 |
Title of Abstract | Unpacking the role of oceanographic data in marine ecosystem accounting and an ocean accounts framework |
Authors | TainĂ£ Loureiro *, Ken Findlay |
Organisation | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
Address | 15 Dagbreek Rd, Pinelands Cape Town, Western Cape, South Sudan Pincode: 7405 Mobile: 764990096 E-mail: loureiro.tg@gmail.com |
Country | South Sudan |
Presentation | Oral |
Abstract | An ocean accounts framework provide standard, consistent and comprehensive structures for the compilation of information related to environmental characteristics, social conditions, and economic activities of the ocean, its resources, and the marine and maritime domains. The framework comprises several systems measuring stocks and linked by flows between them, resulting in statistics that, when measured over time, provide critical indicators to inform evidence-based decision-making processes. One of the ocean accounts component systems is the marine ecosystem accounts (MEA), which provides indicators about ocean wealth and the contribution of marine ecosystems to the economy, people and welfare. MEA accounts for the typologies, extent and biophysical condition (degradation and enhancement) of marine ecosystems, ecosystem assets and services as use (in market, non-market and non-use) values that are either in physical or monetary terms. Notably, increasing volumes of ocean data brought about by ocean science technologies are critical in the science to policy interface that underpins informed decision making processes and adaptive policy cycles. Marine ecosystem accounts track changes in ocean systems over time and link to other components of ocean accounts that inform economic or social indicator metrics. Oceanographic sciences can provide essential links to ocean management, governance, and reporting through marine ecosystem accounts as a component of ocean accounts that are critical in the context of growing human dependence on marine resources, accelerated coastal development, and climate change. |