Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Recent developments in the sustainable management of marine resources
Tuesday, July 8, 11 am US EDT/8 am US PDT/3 pm UTC/4 pm BST/5 pm CEST. Presented by: Mike Elliott of International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists (IECS) Ltd., and the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Hull (Emeritus Professor). Description: This webinar will present and explain cause-consequence-response frameworks and the way these relate to managing marine, coastal and estuarine areas. It will then show the importance of determining the footprints of activities, pressures, and natural and human effects and assessing cumulative effects. Following this, it will consider the footprints of management responses and will demonstrate horizontal management across sectors and vertical management from the local to the global and vice versa. It will look at the importance of transboundary implications of marine management, considering connectivity, coherence, and equivalence. Finally, it will consider the way in which success in marine management is measured, including indicators of success. Examples from Europe and North America will be used, but the topics are relevant to marine areas worldwide.
Identifying and Prioritizing a Portfolio of Marine and Coastal Conservation Finance Solutions
Wednesday, August 20, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC. Presenters: David Meyers of the Conservation Finance Alliance, John Bohorquez of the Blue Economy Solutions Lab and the Conservation Finance Alliance, and Jos Hill of the Conservation Finance Alliance Marine & Coastal Working Group. Description: Coastal and marine ecosystem management and governance institutions face a wide array of choices when it comes to conservation finance mechanisms. A new tool provides a systematic method for brainstorming, defining, and prioritizing suitable finance solutions. This approach is rooted in the definition of conservation finance as “mechanisms and strategies that generate, manage, and deploy financial resources and align incentives to achieve nature conservation outcomes.” In most cases, consistent and adequate funding is a critical but insufficient component of a project’s conservation finance portfolio. This approach seeks to take the practitioner through a range of perspectives to generate ideas on how to solve their conservation challenges and respond to opportunities. The idea generation phase is followed by a prioritization approach adapted from the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN). This webinar will walk attendees through the tool approach and its use.
Changing human behavior to secure conservation outcomes
Tuesday, September 16, 10 am US EDT/7 am US PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm BST/4 pm CEST. Presented by: Laura Perry of Castlerock Conservation and the IUCN SSC CEC Behavior Change Task Force. Description: Conservation behavior change is a nascent discipline, but one which has great applicability to many of today’s conservation challenges. By using lessons drawn from social psychology, behavioral economics, and healthcare interventions, this approach has huge potential to shape human behavior and ultimately secure conservation outcomes. In this talk, we will explore the fundamentals of behavior change and how an array of techniques can be used to change human behavior. Touching on examples from across conservation, we will discuss how these approaches can add value to a conservation program, how practitioners can go about involving behavior change in their work, and the relevance of behavior change approaches to conservation translocations.
Past Webinars
Insuring nature: An insurance policy for the Mesoamerican Reef
This webinar originally aired on February 28, 2018. Presenter(s): Fernando Secaira and Cherie Wagner, TNC Click here to view on YouTube
What we can do to curb social and human rights abuses in the seafood industry
This webinar originally aired on February 14, 2018 Presenter(s): Jack Kittinger, Yoshi Ota, Lydia Teh, Katrina Nakamura, Nathan Bennett Click here to view on YouTube
Engaging governments, businesses, and the public in the fight against marine plastic litter: the Clean Seas campaign
This webinar originally aired on February 8, 2018. Presenter(s): Carla Friedrich, UNEP Click here to view on YouTube
Impacts of the Trump administration proposed offshore drilling plan on MPAs and regional marine spatial plans: Panel discussion
This webinar originally aired on February 7, 2018. Presenter(s): Jay Austin of ELI, Sarah Winter Whelan of the American Littoral Society, Richard Charters of The…
Post Hurricane Irma Rapid Reef Assessment in South Florida and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
This webinar originally aired on January 10, 2018. Presenter(s): Steve Gittings and Tom Moore, NOAA Click here to view on YouTube
Introduction to EDF’s Virtual Fisheries Academy: Empowering a global network of fishery heroes
This webinar originally aired on December 5, 2017. Presenter(s): Jeff Young, EDF
Making your research freely available with MarXiv: The (free!) research repository for ocean conservation and marine-climate science
This webinar originally aired on November 14, 2017. Presenter(s): Nick Wehner, OCTO Click here to view on YouTube
An Introduction to Business Planning for Protected Areas
This webinar originally aired on November 9, 2017. Presenter(s): Andrew Rylance from the GOS-UNDP-GEF Programme Coordination Unit Click here to view on YouTube
Sharing the MPA energy from IMPAC4: Highlights and recommendations from the conference
This webinar originally aired on November 2, 2017. Presenter(s): Lauren Wenzel and Dan Laffoley Click here to view on YouTube