The EBM Toolbox: Tools for ocean zoning

The EBM Toolbox: Tools for ocean zoning

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...
The EBM Toolbox: Tools for ocean zoning

EBM Perspective: Ocean Zoning is Inevitable

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...
The EBM Toolbox: Tools for ocean zoning

The Status of Spatial Management in New Zealand?

When New Zealand began developing a national oceans policy a decade ago, marine policy-makers there and elsewhere anticipated the country might enact the world's first national-level comprehensive ocean plan in its attempt to achieve EBM. However, according to...