MEAM is continuing to pair articles with live online events. On March 8, we will host a live online chat on this month’s lead article “Insights from Practitioners: Challenges and Solutions for Ocean Planning” with Karen Anspacher-Meyer of Green Fire Productions, Jennifer McCann of the URI Coastal Resources Center and RI Sea Grant, and ocean planning leaders from around the world. Join the chat this coming Tuesday, March 8, at 1 pm US EST/10 am PST/6 pm UTC.
Best wishes for your work,
Sarah Carr, MEAM Editor
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MEAM (Marine Ecosystems and Management) Newsletter – March 2016
Insights from Practitioners: Challenges and Solutions for Ocean Planning. What keeps ocean planners up at night? How are they tackling the challenges they face? In October 2015, ocean planning leaders from around the world met in Rhode Island, US, to share practical solutions to the most pressing challenges for ocean planning. Read more about these challenges and solutions.
Dispatches from the Field by Tundi Agardy: When MSP enables Blue Growth, who benefits? “In Europe, and in other places as well, it seems that marine and coastal planning is less about ensuring that use is ecologically and socially sustainable, and much more about incentivizing as many uses as possible.” Read more.
The EBM Toolbox: Adapting MSP tools to new processes: Tools for planning in Seychelles and Indonesia. MSP tools can be adapted to help meet planning objectives in new geographies, saving time and building on lessons learned from previous processes. Learn about the tools being used for MSP processes in Seychelles and Indonesia.
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
- Global fishery catches and fish stock declines dramatically underreported?
- US opens federal waters in Gulf of Mexico to aquaculture
- Tools and approaches for avoiding ecological thresholds summarized
- Publications provide “blue solutions” from Latin America and the Caribbean and guidance for creating more
From the Archives: Turning science into policy: What scientists should (and should not) do when talking to policy-makers (MEAM Feb-Mar 2015, Issue 8:3). From the Archives calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. In this article from February-March 2015, two former policy-makers and two expert science communicators share their experiences with and insights into what scientists do right and wrong when communicating science to policy-makers. Read more.
View/print the full issue at https://meam.openchannels.org/print/meam/issue/march-2016-95.
