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Principle 2: Management should be decentralized to the lowest appropriate level.
Principle 3: Ecosystem managers should consider the effects (actual or potential) of
their activities on adjacent and other ecosystems.
Principle 4: Recognizing potential gains from management, there is usually a need to
understand and manage the ecosystem in an economic context. Any such ecosystem
management programme should:
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Reduce those market distortions that adversely affect biological diversity
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Align incentives to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
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Internalize costs and benefits in the given ecosystem to a feasible extent.
Principle 5: Conservation of ecosystem structure and functioning, in order to main-
tain ecosystem services, should be a priority target of the ecosystem approach.
Principle 6: Ecosystems must be managed within the limits of their functioning.
Principle 7: The ecosystem approach should be undertaken at the appropriate spatial
and temporal scales.
Principle 8: Recognizing the varying temporal scales and lag-effects that character-
ize ecosystem processes, objectives for ecosystem management should be set for the
long term.
Principle 9: Management must recognize that change is inevitable.
Principle 10: The ecosystem approach should seek the appropriate balance between,
and integration of, conservation and use of biological diversity.
Principle 11: The ecosystem approach should consider all forms of relevant informa-
tion, including scientific and indigenous and local knowledge, innovations, and prac-
tices.
