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
Facilitating Collaborative Public Decisions: A Video-Based Training Tool
This webinar originally aired on November 10, 2016. Presenter(s): Steven Yaffee of the University of Michigan Click here to view on YouTube
Adaptive Management of MPAs: Predicting Responses to MPA Implementation for Comparison to Monitoring Data
This webinar originally aired on November 3, 2016. Presenter(s): Louis Botsford of UC Davis Click here to view on YouTube
Demonstration of the Digital Globe Insight Explorer Marine Mapping Program and its IUU Fishing Applications
This webinar originally aired on October 25, 2016. Presenter(s): Vipul Prasad and Alyson Kauffman, Digital Globe Click here to view on YouTube
Characterizing the lobster fishery for future use in ocean planning
This webinar originally aired on October 18, 2016. Presenter(s): Nick Battista and Rebecca Clark Uchenna of the Island Institute Click here to view on YouTube
Ocean Highlights from the IUCN World Conservation Congress
This webinar originally aired on October 4, 2016. Presenter(s): Lauren Wenzel, Carl Gustaf Lundin, and Dan Laffoley Click here to view on YouTube
Decision-support tool for coastal area management based on results of the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)
This webinar originally aired on September 20, 2016. Presenter(s): Jonathan Clough and Marco Propato of Warren Pinnacle Consulting Click here to view on YouTube
Best Practices on Sustainable Shark and Ray Tourism
This webinar originally aired on September 13, 2016. Presenter(s): Andy Cornish of WWF and Isabel Ender of Manta Trust Click here to view on Youtube
Geographic Information Tools for Ocean Advocacy
This webinar originally aired on Aug 23, 2016. Presenter(s): Ludo Nijsten of WWF, Beth Pike of MCI, and Andreas Struck of Navama Click here to…
Integrated Land-Sea Planning in Puerto Rico
This webinar originally aired on August 2, 2016. Presenter(s): Patrick Crist and Samantha Coccia of NatureServe Click here to view on YouTube
Protecting the high seas through a new marine biodiversity treaty under UNCLOS
This webinar originally aired on July 26, 2016. Presenter(s): MPA Action Alliance Click here to view on YouTube