by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Jul 26, 2012
By John B. Davis We often think of games as simply a form of entertainment. But they can play an important role in teaching, too. By applying an aspect of fun to education, games can help communicate messages in ways that pure instruction sometimes cannot. I’m...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
The essence of natural resource management is making decisions about trade-offs. At the most basic level, there are the trade-offs between managing for short-term benefits now or foregoing them for greater benefits later. Then there are trade-offs between different...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) Only a fool would suggest that trade-off analysis is a simple process. But I will propose a simplifying principle. No matter how sophisticated the analysis, how rich the data on values and...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
[Editor's note: Charles Ehler is president of Ocean Visions Consulting and a senior consultant on marine spatial planning to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, France. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has supported his...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
Coastal communities in developing nations have led way on new media Dear MEAM: This is to acknowledge the important contribution of MEAM in directing our community to the potential for new media tools in EBM ("New Media and EBM: Using Twitter, YouTube, and Other...
