TY - JOUR AU - AB - Copyright © 2009 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance. Campbell, L. M., N. J. Gray, E. L. Hazen, and J. M. Shackeroff. 2009. Beyond baselines: rethinking priorities for ocean conservation. Ecology and Society 14(1): 14. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art14/ Insight 1 1 1 1 Lisa M. Campbell , Noella J. Gray , Elliott L. Hazen , and Janna M. Shackeroff ABSTRACT. In 1995, Daniel Pauly identified a "shifting baselines syndrome" (SBS). Pauly was concerned that scientists measure ecosystem change against their personal recollections of the past and, based on this decidedly short-term view, mismanage fish stocks because they tolerate gradual and incremental elimination of species and set inappropriate recovery goals. As a concept, SBS is simple to grasp and its logic is compelling. Much current work in marine historical ecology is rationalized in part as a means of combating SBS, and the term has also resonated outside of the academy with environmental advocacy groups. Although we recognize both conceptual and operational merit in SBS, we believe that the ultimate impact of SBS on ocean management will be limited by some underlying and interrelated problematic assumptions about ecology and human–environment relations, and the prescriptions that TI - Beyond Baselines: Rethinking Priorities for Ocean Conservation JF - Ecology and Society DO - 10.5751/es-02774-140114 DA - 2009-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/beyond-baselines-rethinking-priorities-for-ocean-conservation-Erx9KWlKfy DP - DeepDyve ER -