…software tools is fundamentally different from the development of commercial software. Many EBM software tools, for example, are a by-product…
Managing Trade-offs: Viewpoints from the Negotiation Table
…on trade-offs EBM Roadmap: Tradeoffs among Human Activities www.ebmtools.org/roadmap/coreelements/6 Environment Australia: Contingent Valuation www.environment.gov.au/about/publications/economics/value/chapter5.html SeaPlan: Ecosystem Services Trade-off Modeling www.seaplan.org/ocean-planning/tools-to-inform-decision-making/ecosystem-tradeoff-modeling/intro/…
Notes and News
Clarification: The correct address for the website co-managed by the US Departments of Commerce and the Interior to provide news…
Issues of Scale: Ensuring that EBM Works at All Levels, from Local to National and Beyond
…and practical aspects of EBM in North America. Heiman is EBM science coordinator for COMPASS (www.compassonline.org), a collaborative effort to…
Are marine conservation and sustainable food production on a collision course?: Experts respond
…of Development Studies Policy Brief 40 (http://www.future-agricultures.org/publications/research-and-analysis/policy-briefs/doc_download/1417-caadp-and-fisheries-policy-in-africa-are-we-aiming-for-the-right-reform[SC1]). Yet as we showed in a recent study (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00486.x/abstract), the social costs of…
International MPA Plans Are Emerging Slowly, Amid Obstacles
…barriers and other communications difficulties, higher costs for meetings and scheduling, and concerns over national security, both economic and military….
Notes & News
…http://www.mpa.gov/information_tools/pdf/hupi-workshopreport-fdraft.pdf. Report: Protection of reefs, mangroves is bargain Coastal coral reefs and mangroves play an important role in shoreline protection…
Insights from Practitioners: Challenges and Solutions for Ocean Planning
…like we’re really coming to them. We’d be saying, ‘We’re not just coming to you in an email; we’re coming…
Examining the Relationship between Marine Spatial Planning and EBM: Views from Three Planners
…a single species, sector, activity or concern; it considers the cumulative impacts of different sectors.” [This definition is at www.compassonline.org/pdf_files/EBM_Consensus_Statement_v12.pdf.]…
Mapping and MPAs: Practitioners Work to Define Resources, Boundaries
…conservation issues,” the task force called for the development of high-resolution benthic maps of regional coral reef ecosystems, with particular…