Social–ecological systems (SES) and ecosystem-based management (EBM) are globally recognised tools to enable balanced marine development and conservation. Marine SABRES is a four-year EU-funded project (Sep 2022 – Aug 2026) aiming to co-design a simple SES approach to rapidly enable and upscale EBM across Europe and abroad. The project sets European marine management on a course to reverse biodiversity decline by integrating sustainable ecosystems and a resilient blue economy. Marine SABRES empowers managers to make sustainable decisions and citizens to engage with marine biodiversity conservation. The project demonstrates the practical management efforts in the Tuscan Archipelago, the Arctic North-East Atlantic and the Macaronesian archipelagos.
