Insights from the Management of Offshore Energy Resources: Toward an Ecosystem-services Based Management Approach for Deep-Ocean Industries

Authors

M. Emilia Bravo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Miriam I. Brandt, Norwegian Research Center AS (NORCE)
Jesse M. A. van der Grient, South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute
Thomas G. Dahlgren, Norwegian Research Center AS (NORCE)
Patricia Esquete, Universidade de Aveiro
Sabine Gollner, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
Daniel O. B. Jones, National Oceanography Centre
Lisa A. Levin, University of California San Diego
Craig R. McClain, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, Scottish Association for Marine Science
Tracey Sutton, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Lissette Victorero, Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Erik E. Cordes, Temple University

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5280-7071

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Frontiers in Marine Science

ISSN

2296-7745

Publication Date

1-12-2023

Keywords

offshore renewable energies, offshore oil and gas industry, deep ocean capacity building, capacity building, observing technologies, ecosystem-based management, environmental impact assessment, deep sea industries

Abstract

The deep ocean comprises complex ecosystems made up of numerous community and habitat types that provide multiple services that benefit humans. As the industrialization of the deep sea proceeds, a standardized and robust set of methods and metrics need to be developed to monitor the baseline conditions and any anthropogenic and climate change-related impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services. Here, we review what we have learned from studies involving offshore-energy industries, including state-of-the-art technologies and strategies for obtaining reliable metrics of deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem function. An approach that includes the detection and monitoring of ecosystem services, with open access to baseline data from multiple sectors, can help to improve our global capacity for the management of the deep ocean.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.994632

Volume

9

First Page

994632

Comments

© 2023 Bravo, Brandt, van der Grient, Dahlgren, Esquete, Gollner, Jones, Levin, McClain, Narayanaswamy, Sutton, Victorero and Cordes. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

NSUWorks Citation

M. Emilia Bravo, Miriam I. Brandt, Jesse M. A. van der Grient, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Patricia Esquete, Sabine Gollner, Daniel O. B. Jones, Lisa A. Levin, Craig R. McClain, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, Tracey Sutton, Lissette Victorero, and Erik E. Cordes. 2023. Insights from the Management of Offshore Energy Resources: Toward an Ecosystem-services Based Management Approach for Deep-Ocean Industries .Frontiers in Marine Science : 994632 . https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1342.