by John Davis | May 15, 2011
As described to MPA News by Takaomi Kaneko and Mitsutaku Makino, both of Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency: “The majority of Japan’s MPAs are ‘managed resource protected areas’ (IUCN category VI...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2011
In Western-style resource management, specific human activities are usually managed by dedicated agencies. Fisheries, for example, are managed by fisheries agencies. Offshore petroleum is regulated by energy or minerals agencies. Shipping is overseen by transportation...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2011
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) Integration is the cornerstone of EBM. The lack of it is why sectoral management typically fails to stem ecosystem decline – which, in turn, is why most everyone agrees that integration is...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2011
Editor’s note: Joe Uravitch served as director of the US National Marine Protected Areas Center from 2000 to 2011. Now retired, he works part-time as a consultant on coastal and marine resource management issues. By Joseph A. Uravitch In 1978 I started work at...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2011
Editor’s note: Charles Ehler, president of Ocean Visions (Paris, France), served as marine spatial planning consultant to the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Arctic Climate Change and was co-author of UNESCO’s guide to marine spatial planning,...
