The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management
Creating the Necessary Management Capacity for EBM
Improved marine management is something to which most coastal nations aspire, and many have made commitments to EBM. When attempts to practice EBM are unsuccessful, the assumption is often that the "capacity" to practice it is lacking. Quick translation: there is not enough money available. But capacity to do EBM…
Case Study: Creating Adequate EBM Capacity – The Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest on Canada's west coast demonstrates how capacity to do large-scale, integrated management can be created and sustained. It is not a marine EBM project in the traditional sense: its focus in on the rainforest, not the adjacent coastal waters. But the initiative has much to offer…
EBM Perspectives
Editor's note: Fernando Tiburcio is president of PAMANA Ka Sa Pilipinas, a national alliance of community-based MPA managers in the Philippines. His e-mail is pamanakasapilipinas@gmail.com. Paul Watts is chair in Ethnoecology at Aurora State College of Technology in the Philippines. His e-mail is paulwatts52@yahoo.com. (The e-mail address for Senator Loreen…
Note from the Editor
Dear MEAM Reader, This is my second issue as editor of Marine Ecosystems and Management. I view the newsletter with great excitement, particularly the opportunity it offers to help bridge chasms between disciplines, as EBM requires. This includes linking the sometimes-isolationist marine community with the broader world of environmental management….
Notes & News: Correction – ICZM book – Valuation of LMEs
Correction In our previous issue (MEAM 1:2), there was an error in our identification of Michael Sissenwine, who authored the essay "Globalization and Scaling in Ecosystem-Based Management". He is a visiting scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the U.S. and a marine science consultant. He formerly served as…
The EBM Toolbox: Integrating diverse tools, and why there is no EBM “SuperTool” yet
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 leading tool users, developers, and training providers…
Issues of Scale: Ensuring that EBM Works at All Levels, from Local to National and Beyond
Ecosystem-based management commonly involves "scaling up" from how other management practices have typically worked: From single-species fisheries management to management of multi-species assemblages; From looking at isolated drivers of change to considering all environmental and human impacts; From design of individual protected areas to planning MPA networks; and From conservation…
Case Study: Connecting Scales of Management for EBM in West Africa
The challenge of coordinating across scales in EBM is being met in different ways in different parts of the world. As highlighted in the preceding article, cross-scale EBM is being undertaken in West Africa using an MPA network as a starting point. West Africa's coastal zone is strategically important to…
EBM Perspectives
Editor's note: James Dobbin is a Canadian coastal planner with several decades of experience conducting coastal and marine assessment and management worldwide. EBM Perspective: A Planner's View on Working Across Spatial Scales By James Dobbin I believe it is impossible to achieve EBM without a comprehensive and integrated planning process….
The EBM Toolbox
Editor's note: The goal of the following feature, The EBM Toolbox, is to promote awareness of technology tools that can facilitate EBM processes, and provide advice on using those tools effectively. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network (www.ebmtools.org), a voluntary alliance of leading tool users, developers,…