Ocean Drivers: The Key to Understanding Ocean Change

Ocean Drivers are considered as social, demographic, and economic changes in societies, including changes in lifestyles and consumption and production patterns. These drivers put pressures on the ocean, such as pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction. The relationships between drivers, pressures, and impacts are complex and dynamic, with each factor influencing the others. This can lead to cumulative interactions, where the effects of multiple stressors add up to have a greater impact than the sum of their individual effects.