Author:
Garcia S. M.,Staples D. J.
Abstract
This review was prepared as a background
document for the Consultation on Sustainable Indicators for Capture Fisheries
held in Sydney, Australia, 18–22 January 1998. It aims to facilitate the
development and implementation of indicators and to serve as a basis for the
development of part of the series of Technical Guidelines in Support of the
FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. The paper reviews the concept
of sustainable development (‘sustainability’). Five sustainability
frameworks are suggested for developing and grouping indicators. A discussion
of the criteria that could be used to measure and monitor progress towards
sustainability includes the types of possible indicators, their use within the
sustainability concept, use of reference points on which to compare indicators
and their relation to planning and management. Sustainable Development
Reference Systems are introduced as a tool for grouping indicators and
representing the interrelationships among them. Visual methods of portraying
the human and environmental dimensions of sustainability and their indicators
can be broadened to permit temporal and spatial comparisons. These, combined
with systems to scale the different dimensions to reflect different societal
values of their importance, can assist policy makers, fisheries managers,
industries, non-governmental organizations and the general public in
understanding and assessing progress towards sustainable development of
capture fisheries.
Subject
Ecology,Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Oceanography
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