Current issues in environmental management: A case study of Southern California's marine monitoring system

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A case study panel of the National Research Council's Committee on Systems Assessment of Marine Environmental Monitoring analyzed the monitoring system in the Southern California Bight. The goal of this assessment was to identify monitoring's contribution to decisionmaking and recommend how effective monitoring programs could be designed. The committee viewed monitoring as part of a management system including public concerns, laws and regulations, and the decision‐making infrastructure. In assessing this larger system, the panel found many monitoring programs in the bight, regulated and performed by a variety of public and private agencies. These programs had contributed to the understanding of impacts around point sources. However, larger‐scale and cumulative impacts were not well monitored because of an emphasis on point‐source impacts only. Additionally, management inflexibilities have led to inefficient use of monitoring resources. The panel recommended changes in the design and management of monitoring.

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