by John Davis | Oct 15, 2008
Editor’s note: The following essay offers lessons from a learning workshop on marine conservation agreements presented in October at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain. John Claussen is director of the Conservation and Community Investment...
by John Davis | Oct 15, 2008
Greenpeace dumps boulders in MPA to discourage trawling Greenpeace activists in August placed more than 300 large granite stones in an MPA in the German EEZ of the North Sea in an attempt to discourage bottom trawling activity there. Each boulder, weighing 2-3 metric...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Sep 25, 2008
Comprehensive ocean zoning (COZ) is potentially a powerful tool for integrating marine management at ecosystem scales. In this issue of MEAM, we look to places where zoning is being implemented, and address the following questions: What is COZ and what benefits does...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Sep 25, 2008
Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of software tools for facilitating EBM processes, and to provide advice on using those tools effectively. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network (www.ebmtools.org), a voluntary alliance of...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Sep 25, 2008
Editor's note: Elliott Norse is president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute, a marine conservation NGO. By Elliott A. Norse Until the 1990s, scientists and policy-makers generally perceived the sea as the Earth's bountiful "last frontier", so...
