An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean

BS Halpern, C Longo, D Hardy, KL McLeod… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food,
livelihoods and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable …

Building on a decade of the Ocean Health Index

BS Halpern - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
With oceans under increasing pressure from human activities, sustainable development and
conservation efforts are working to set meaningful targets for healthy oceans. Determining …

Patterns and emerging trends in global ocean health

BS Halpern, C Longo, JSS Lowndes, BD Best… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
International and regional policies aimed at managing ocean ecosystem health need
quantitative and comprehensive indices to synthesize information from a variety of sources …

Operationalizing ocean health: Toward integrated research on ocean health and recovery to achieve ocean sustainability

A Franke, T Blenckner, CM Duarte, K Ott, LE Fleming… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Protecting the ocean has become a major goal of international policy as human activities
increasingly endanger the integrity of the ocean ecosystem, often summarized as" ocean …

Fostering human health through ocean sustainability in the 21st century

LE Fleming, B Maycock, MP White… - People and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The approach of the Decade of the Ocean for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)
provides a time to reflect on what we know about the complex interactions between the seas …

Oceans and society: feedbacks between ocean and human health

KL Nash, I Van Putten, KA Alexander, S Bettiol… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2022 - Springer
The concentration of human population along coastlines has far-reaching effects on ocean
and societal health. The oceans provide benefits to humans such as food, coastal protection …

Research priorities for achieving healthy marine ecosystems and human communities in a changing climate

WR Friedman, BS Halpern, E McLeod… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The health of coastal human communities and marine ecosystems are at risk from a host of
anthropogenic stressors, in particular, climate change. Because ecological health and …

[HTML][HTML] Oceans and human health: a rising tide of challenges and opportunities for Europe

LE Fleming, N McDonough, M Austen, L Mee… - Marine environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Marine Board recently published a position paper on linking oceans
and human health as a strategic research priority for Europe. With this position paper as a …

Moving toward an agenda on ocean health and human health in Europe

A Borja, MP White, E Berdalet, N Bock… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The integrated study of ocean health and human health is an emerging area of increasing
global importance. Growing evidences demonstrate that the health of the ocean and the …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …