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
Demonstration of SituMap Multi-User Mapping Application
This webinar originally aired on July 18, 2016. Presenter(s): Seneca Holland of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Richard Smith of CartoFusion Technologies Click here to…
Demonstration of Situ Map Multi-User Mapping Application
Presenter(s): Seneca Holland of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Richard Smith of CartoFusion Technologies Click here to view on Youtube
Alternative Livelihood Opportunities for Coastal Communities in the Eastern Caribbean
This webinar originally aired on June 26, 2016. Presenter(s): ECMMAN- Joan Norville of OECS, Roland Baldeo of Grenada Fisheries Division, and Michael Savarin of Tan…
EDF’s EU Discard Reduction Manual: A Guide for Fishermen, Fishery Managers and Member States
This webinar originally aired on June 25, 2016 Presenter(s): Karly McIlwain and Erik Lindebo of Environmental Defense Fund Click here to view on YouTube
Takeaways from the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium
This webinar originally aired on June 14, 2016. Presenter(s): Paulo Maurin, Jason Philibotte, and Bob Richmond Click her to view on YouTube
Using InVEST for Coastal Zone Management in Belize
This webinar originally aired on June 7, 2016. Presenter(s): Katie Arkema of Stanford University, Chantalle Clarke-Samuels of Belize CZMA, and Gregg Verutes of WWF Click…
A Methodology for Assessing the Vulnerability of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change
This webinar originally aired on June 2, 2016. Presenter(s): Wendy Morrison of NOAA Click here to view on YouTube
The View Past Peak Catches: Global Catch Trends in Marine Fisheries
This webinar originally aired on May 17, 2016. Presenter(s): Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the Sea Around Us and UBC Click here to view…
Project Eyes on the Seas
This webinar originally aired on May 12, 2016. Presenter(s): Mark Young of the Pew Charitable Trusts Click here to view YouTube
Management on the Move: Making EBM and MSP More Dynamic
This webinar originally aired on May 6, 2016. Presenter(s): Daniel Dunn of Duke, Sara Maxwell of Old Dominion, and Alistair Hobday of CSIRO Click here…