Title

Top 10 Principles for Designing Healthy Coastal Ecosystems Like the Salish Sea

Description

Like other coastal zones around the world, the inland sea ecosystem of Washington (USA) and British Columbia (Canada), an area known as the Salish Sea, is changing under pressure from a growing human population, conversion of native forest and shoreline habitat to urban development, toxic contamination of sediments and species, and overharvest of resources. While billions of dollars have been spent trying to restore other coastal ecosystems around the world, there still is no successful model for restoring estuarine or marine ecosystems like the Salish Sea. Despite the lack of a guiding model, major ecological principles do exist that should be applied as people work to design the Salish Sea and other large marine ecosystems for the future. We suggest that the following 10 ecological principles serve as a foundation for educating the public and for designing a healthy Salish Sea and other coastal ecosystems for future generations.

Creator

Joseph K. Gaydos

Leslie Dierauf

Grant Kirby

Deborah Brosnan

Kirsten Gilardi

Gary E. Davis

Date

2008

doi

Link to Publisher copy

Is Part Of

The State of the Salish Sea

Spatial Coverage

Salish Sea in the global context

Temporal Coverage

Present

Future

attributionURL

CC BY NC 2.0

Bibliographic Citation

Gaydos, J. K., Dierauf, L., Kirby, G., Brosnan, D., Gilardi, K., & Davis, G. E. (2008). Top 10 principles for designing healthy coastal ecosystems like the Salish Sea. EcoHealth, 5(4), 460–471.