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The objectives of management of land, water and living
resources are a matter of societal choice
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Management should be decentralised to the lowest
appropriate level
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The ecosystem approach should be undertaken at the
appropriate
spatial and temporal scales
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Recognising the varying temporal scales and lag-effects
that characterise ecosystem process, objectives for ecosystem management
should be set for the long-term
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Ecosystem managers should consider the effects
(actual or
potential) of their activities on adjacent and other ecosystems
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Recognising potential gains from management, there is
usually a need to understand and manage the ecosystem in an economic context.
Any such ecosystem-management programme should: reduce those market
distortions that adversely affect biological diversity; align incentives to
promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use; and internalise costs
and benefits in the given ecosystem to the extent feasible
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Conservation of ecosystem structure and
functioning, in
order to maintain ecosystem services, should be a priority target of the
ecosystem approach
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Ecosystems must be managed within the limits of their
functioning
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Management must recognise that change is inevitable
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The ecosystem approach should seek the appropriate balance
between, and integration of, conservation and use of biological diversity
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The ecosystem approach should consider all forms of
relevant information including scientific and indigenous and local knowledge,
innovations and practices
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The ecosystem approach should involve all relevant sectors
of society and scientific disciplines.
