Abstract
It is increasingly being important to identify and understand pathways for conservation and management of marine resources. While marine resources are fast being degraded all over the world, efforts to analyze them for well-being of ecosystems are still lacking. One viable solution is local management practices. However, these practices face different challenges both internally as well as externally, making management of ecosystems a complex task. This paper looks at three examples of such management practices from the Seto Inland Sea of Japan -the Himeshima fisheries, Nakatsu tidal flat and Hinase seagrass ecosystem -and analyses them from an ecosystem services approach.
