by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Jun 26, 2010
Arctic governance needs reform in response to climate change The current regulatory and governance regime for protecting the Arctic marine environment is inadequate and new measures must be adopted, according to a new series of reports from WWF. The reports point out...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Jun 26, 2010
Editor’s note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of tools for facilitating EBM processes. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network, a voluntary alliance of tool users, developers, and training providers. By Sarah Carr Tools for modeling...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2010
Ecosystem-based management can be described relatively simply. It is an approach that uses ecosystem science – our knowledge of the connections among living organisms, natural phenomena, and human activities – to guide our uses of the ocean and coast. By...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2010
By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) EBM is a journey, not a destination. But even significant journeys can be undertaken by taking small, purposeful steps. In the San Andrés Archipelago of Colombia, resource management has...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2010
As a field, marine ecosystem-based management is relatively new. But some of the challenges its practitioners face are ones that people have encountered through history. A main challenge, for example, involves getting individuals and groups to change from a set way of...