Project aims to guide EU monitoring and implementation of spatially managed areas
The EU-funded project "Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas" (MESMA) is analyzing marine spatial planning in practice in Europe. The ultimate goal of the four-year project, which started in 2009, is to inform wider implementation of MSP in...
Notes & News: Timor-Leste – Biodiversity offsets – Rhode Island MSP – Payments for ecosystem services
Timor-Leste approves guidelines for co-management of natural resources The nation of Timor-Leste – in the heart of SE Asia's Coral Triangle – has adopted its first comprehensive guidelines for establishing community and government co-management of...
Integrated land-and-sea management: Examining three cases where marine practitioners are looking upstream
Coastal systems are linked to upland areas, just as they are to offshore areas. We can think of the connections among systems as two sides of the same coin. On one side, the connections are positive: with land, freshwater, and offshore marine systems delivering...
Tundi’s Take: Acknowledge the land-sea connection, even if it takes you from your comfort zone as a marine manager
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor. tundiagardy@earthlink.net
By its very nature, EBM requires that we address how ecosystems are connected and factor that into management. But what does it mean for our community of marine and coastal managers when inland ecosystems are among those connections?
Although the community generally acknowledges that being "ecosystem-based" requires considering both land and aquatic systems when developing our management regimes, doing that is not easy. And it does not come naturally to most marine management agencies.