The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management
Tundi’s Take: Is blue growth taking us where we want to go?
By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM. Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net Blue growth – the strategy to promote economic and employment growth from the oceans, seas and coasts – is alluring. But are we really ready for where that growth could take us? One direction we could be headed is a future where…
The EBM Toolbox: Tools for crowdsourcing data and collaborative mapping
Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of tools for facilitating EBM and MSP processes. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network, a voluntary alliance of tool users, developers, and training providers. Need to learn how your stakeholders are using the marine…
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
European MSP knowledge-sharing platform launched With the adoption of the EU Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning (2014/89/EU), all coastal EU Member States are required to prepare cross-sectoral maritime spatial plans by 2021. A new service, the European MSP Platform funded by the EU Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries…
From My Bookshelf: The Once and Future Ocean – Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society
By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM. Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net Sometimes it takes a look from a different direction to develop a fuller view of something you thought you knew well. Peter Neill’s new book, The Once and Future Ocean – Notes Toward a Hydraulic Society, has the potential to create a…
From the Editor: Happy Birthday to eMEAM!
Dear MEAM readers, This issue marks the one-year anniversary of ‘eMEAM’, MEAM’s incarnation as a monthly, all-electronic newsletter. It has been our pleasure to be able to provide you with EBM and ocean planning insights and news coverage more frequently and in an easily-accessible online format. And we hope that…
Oceans online: Innovative uses of the internet for ocean planning and management
Sharing information and engaging stakeholders through the internet is an increasingly important part of ocean planners and managers’ work. New ideas and tools for online engagement are emerging daily. But it can be difficult for planners and managers to carve time out of their already busy schedules to keep track…
Dispatches from the Field: Long Island Sound Surprise – 3D farming, the future of EBM?
By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM. Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net Long Island Sound, on the east coast of the US, is filled with paradox. The country’s priciest estates line part of its shores, while urban and industrial blight scar other areas. To the west, the metropolis of New York City and its…
The EBM Toolbox: Tools and resources for evaluating cumulative impacts from human activities
Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of tools for facilitating EBM and MSP processes. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network, a voluntary alliance of tool users, developers, and training providers. The EBM Tools Network recently responded to a question about…
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
First Nations and British Columbia sign marine plan implementation agreements The Canadian province of British Columbia and 17 coastal First Nations (indigenous peoples of Canada) have signed implementation agreements for the marine plans collaboratively developed by the Marine Planning Partnership (MaPP) for the North Pacific Coast. Plans were developed for…
From the Archives: Planning Canada’s Pacific Coast: What made it work (MEAM September 2015, Issue 8:6)
Editor’s Note: From the Archives calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. In April 2015, the Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) released plans for over 100,000 km2 of the coastal waters of the Canadian province of British Columbia — making it…