Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
A Sea of Success for Islands: Highlighting Plastic Waste and Pollution Solutions
Wednesday, November 13, 7 am US EST/Noon UTC/1 pm CET [***Webinar will last 1.5 hours***] Presenters: IUCN plastics experts and guest speakers from islands addressing plastic waste. Description: This webinar will focus on island-specific plastic pollution solutions, including tools for understanding plastic waste solutions, economic angles of plastic pollution, case studies, and solutions platforms to generate knowledge exchange for more effective mitigation and prevention of plastic waste and pollution. Just a few of the tools and resources to be covered include the Blueprint to Zero Plastic Waste – a guide to reducing plastic waste on islands – and findings of studies estimating the impacts of marine plastics on the fisheries and tourism sectors and the costs and benefits of implementing a solution (e.g., a national recycling system, with and without regional cooperation) to reduce mismanaged plastic waste and its leakage into the marine environment. Case studies will provide information on what has worked and not worked on islands, including the sustainability of projects.
Assessing the sustainability of coastal tourism: Tools and lessons learned
Thursday, December 12, 9 am US EST/6 am US PST/2 pm UTC/3 pm CET/4 pm EET. Presented by: Ioannis Pappas of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. Description: The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) establishes and manages global standards for sustainable travel and tourism, known as the GSTC Criteria. The GSTC’s Destination Criteria for public policymakers and destination managers provide basic guidelines for destinations that wish to become more sustainable and offer governments, NGOs, and the private sector a starting point for developing sustainable tourism requirements. This webinar will present the GSTC’s resources for assessing the sustainability of coastal tourism and takeaways from destination assessments in coastal areas, including Heraklion, Corfu, Athens, Dubrovnik, and Kotor.
Past Webinars
Demonstration of Marine Valuation Databases
Ecosystem services valuation data is abundant, yet often hard to find. This is especially true for the marine world which has seen a proliferation of valuable data …
Drawing the Line: Visualizing global MPA distribution using practical protection categories with MPAtlas.org
Currently, only about 1.8% of the world’s oceans are in MPAs; far less than the 12% of land area that is protected. Of the world’s MPAs,..
Webinar Demonstration of COAST (Coastal Adaptation to Sea level rise Tool)
Many communities are ready to take action to adapt to changing conditions, but may be unsure which actions are good investments.
Citizen Science for Coastal and Marine Environments: Latest Research, Redmap Australia, Reef Watch, and Feral or In Peril
The Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Network and OpenChannels.org co-hosted this webinar on Citizen Science for Coastal and Marine Environments…
SocMon: Social Science Monitoring in Coastal and MPA Management
Peter Edwards of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program presented this webinar with the EBM Tools Network and the National MPA Center on Thursday, July 11, 2013.
Big Ocean MPA Network: Addressing the common challenges of Large, Remote Marine Protected Areas
Aulani Wilhelm of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument presented this webinar with the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and the EBM Tools Network on Thursday, June 13, 2013.
Citizen Science for Coastal and Marine Environments: Reef Check California, COASST, and MPA Watch
Thinking about starting a citizen science program and wondering how to make it successful? On this webinar, organizers from three marine citizen science programs along the U.S. West Coast…
Demonstration of How to Apply CMECS to Existing Geospatial Datasets
The Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) provides a comprehensive national framework for organizing information..
Marine Protected Area Network Planning in the Bay of Fundy Scotian Shelf
Maxine Westhead of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, presented this webinar with the EBM Tools Network and the National MPA Center on Thursday, May 9, 2013.
Demonstration of Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES)
Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) is a GIS-based tool to assess, map, and quantify nonmarket values of ecosystem services as perceived by stakeholders…