Barbara Neumann

This work aims to extent the work of Halpern et al. (2012) who recently published an index to score “ocean health” at global level. Though described as a “...standardized, quantitative, transparent and scalable measure ... to understand, track and communicate ecosystem status and design strategic actions...”, there are shortcomings to this approach. These will be addressed in the proposed project by integrating stakeholders and their knowledge and notions in conceptualizing the framework, by including the governance system, and by assessing coastal zones in the sense of a hinterland-coastsea- continuum of coastal SES.