People depend on the ocean to provide a range of ecosystem services, including sustaining
economies and providing nutrition. We demonstrate how a global ocean health index …

Sustainable provision of seafood from wild-capture fisheries and mariculture is a
fundamental component of healthy marine ecosystems and a major component of the Ocean …

International and regional policies aimed at managing ocean ecosystem health need
quantitative and comprehensive indices to synthesize information from a variety of sources …

With oceans under increasing pressure from human activities, sustainable development and
conservation efforts are working to set meaningful targets for healthy oceans. Determining …

During the international symposium on “Regional Applications and Nexus of the Ocean
Health Index” at The University of Tokyo in Japan in July 2015, a range of experts …

Growing international and national focus on quantitatively measuring and improving ocean
health has increased the need for comprehensive, scientific, and repeated indicators to track …

Management of marine ecosystems increasingly demands comprehensive and quantitative
assessments of ocean health, but lacks a tool to do so. We applied the recently developed …

The Ocean Health Index (OHI) is a framework to assess ocean health by considering many
benefits (called 'goals') provided by the ocean provides to humans, such as food provision …

Brazil has one of the largest and fastest growing economies and one of the largest
coastlines in the world, making human use and enjoyment of coastal and marine resources …

Effective management of marine systems requires quantitative tools that can assess the
state of the marine social-ecological system and are responsive to management actions and …