Shannon, C, Quinn, CH orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-0446, Dunn, AM orcid.org/0000-0002-4855-1077 et al. (1 more author) (2020) Coherence of marine alien species biosecurity legislation: A study of England and Wales. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 161 (Part B). 111796. ISSN 0025-326X
Abstract
The marine environment is particularly at risk from the intentional and unintentional introduction and spread of invasive alien species (IAS); preventing their introduction and spread from occurring is therefore, a key component in the on-going management of marine IAS. Ensuring legislation is coherent and consistent is essential to the success of managing the existing and future impacts of marine IAS. We explore the coherence (determined as consistency and interaction) of marine biosecurity legislation for IAS at different geopolitical scales. There was consistency between both the Bern Convention and Convention on Biological Diversity and European and national legislation that had been created in response. There was a lack of interaction evidenced by the Ballast Water Management Convention, which had not yet been transposed into regional (mainly European) or national legislation. Implementation measures such as legislation should be coherent as any failure in the chain could potentially weaken the overall effort to establish and maintain biosecurity and achieve behaviour change.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Legislation; Policy; Biosecurity; Invasive alien species; Policy analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2020 12:33 |
Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2020 12:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111796 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168013 |