by John Davis | Jul 6, 2015
UK Conservative party wins election; no final announcement yet on Pitcairn MPA In March 2015, the ruling UK Government at the time – a coalition of the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats – announced its intent to designate an MPA around the Pitcairn...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 23, 2015
In the first issue of MEAM in September 2007, we asked several leading practitioners in marine conservation and management for their views on the challenges facing the field of ecosystem-based management (EBM). Eight years later, as the newsletter readies its first...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 23, 2015
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) It has been a decade or more since EBM came into the vernacular. In the interim, paeans to EBM have appeared in project proposals, annual reports, government reviews, student writings, and, with...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 23, 2015
What do you need to make MSP actually happen? MEAM asked seven MSP practitioners from around the world, and from different stages of MSP planning and implementation, what has helped them most to move their MSP processes forward. Responses ranged from realizations and...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 23, 2015
New marine plans set for much of Canada's Pacific Coast Marine plans for most of the Pacific coast of Canada have been set as part of a collaborative project involving the province of British Columbia and 18 coastal First Nations (aboriginal Canadian peoples). The...