Marine Environmental Carrying Capacity Monitoring System: A Monitoring Framework to Achieve Marine Environment Adaptive Management

The marine pollution problem is mainly related to inputs to the ocean directly or indirectly through the atmosphere, from land-based sources or land-based activities of society. The management of this is essentially associated with managing in an adequate way our activities on land. Monitoring, evaluation and adaptation are necessary to ensure that marine management measures are both effective and efficient. Marine environmental carrying capacity monitoring system is a monitoring framework to achieve marine environment adaptive management, the core of the system is monitoring marine environmental carrying capacity under DPSIR model. This paper introduces a definition of marine environmental carrying capacity and the conceptual framework for marine environmental carrying capacity monitoring system.