Session conveners:
Keith Criddle, USA
Luc Doyen, France
Jan Jaap Poos, Netherlands
Simon Jennings, UK
Doug Lipton, USA
Olivier Thébaud, France
This theme session will explore the scientific advances in the understanding of coupled ecological, economic and social processes driving the dynamics of marine socio-ecological systems. Emphasis will be on the methods and tools which enable such process understanding, from qualitative approaches to quantitative process and empirical model-based approaches.
Examples include ecological-economic systems dynamics models, the technical mechanics of full system MSEs, risk assessments, prioritization and triaging processes, and similar methods as applied to coupled socio-ecological systems.