by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Oct 26, 2010
For ecosystem-based management (EBM) to be successful, science is needed to understand the natural system, social system, and governance system – as well as how each one interacts with the others. EBM, at its core, is policy based on scientific evidence and...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Oct 26, 2010
Dear MEAM, Your August/September 2010 issue provides an excellent summary of the appropriate use of science in planning and management. It might surprise you that we used the methodologies so well described by Leanne Fernandes and Tundi Agardy in the original planning...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2010
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) Of all the principles that serve as the foundation for EBM, the precautionary approach may be the most inherently problematic. It presents several paradoxes: Its premise is pure logic…yet its...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2010
In July, President Obama signed an executive order establishing a national ocean policy for the US (www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans). The policy launches a process of coastal and marine spatial planning for the nation, carried out on a...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Oct 25, 2010
Editor's note: Jeff Ardron, author of the following essay, is director of the High Seas Program at MCBI (Marine Conservation Biology Institute) in the US. He is also president of the board for PacMARA (Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association) and an...
