Biodiversity, Coastal Protection, Promotion and Applicability Investigation of the Ocean Health Index for Turkish Seas

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 353 - 367, 02.12.2018

Cem Gazioğlu

https://doi.org/10.30897/ijegeo.484067

Cited By: 10

Abstract

We
are witnessing a process that involves environmental problems at the global
scale, primarily climate change, which will require all people to be concerned
about the health of the oceans. The health of the marine environment and
ecology is deteriorating. Declining biodiversity and changing chemical
transformations due to this deterioration reduce the capacity of natural
processes to reproduce healthy marine environments. Scientists who work on a
global scale believe that the processes of change have reached the level we
cannot expect to take action and believe that we must prioritize our action to
reverse the trend. For this purpose, it is necessary to develop a
multi-dimensional scale that can measure not only the science parameters but
also socio-economic scaling for measuring the health of the seas-oceans. There
are sources describing an acceptable definition of a healthy ocean as the
continuation of benefits for humanity (Rapport, et al., 1998; Samhouri, et al.,
2011). Multidimensional management and conservation of marine resources can be
explained by a derivative of human activities and needs deep analysis (Halpern,
et al., 2008). Numerous efforts to quantify natural resources in a comparative
form have been the subject of research for many years. Numerous quantities
expressed together with graphical visualization, as well as having different
approaches to what it means to be in the digital form, are more than an ideal,
but a challenge. To better understand and monitor ecosystem conditions; there
is a need for a standardized and scalable index that is understandable and
usable. In addition, the developments of international organizations and
cooperation for the purpose of protecting the coasts and the increase of their
activities have revealed the need for a common indexation in determining the
status of the coasts and seas. The primary objective of the index in question
is to ensure the continuation of the benefits that are used more than the
rating of the severity of the deterioration. The Ocean Health Index (OHI) is a
good reference to quantitatively assess the status of the marine environment
from the perspective of coupled human-ocean systems (Elfes et al., 2014; Lam &
Roy, 2014; Halpern et al., 2014; Daigle et al., 2016; Longo et al., 2017). The
OHI is a novel indicator approach to assess the health of the oceans through
tracking the current and likely future status of ten widely-held public goals
(Halpern et al., 2012). In this study, biodiversity, development of coastal
protection indices is explained. The introduction of the ocean health index in
the Turkish seas and its applicability is being investigated.

Keywords

Ocean Health Index (OHI), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), scale, score

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