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While area-based approaches to marine management have a long history, Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has risen to become the dominant marine management paradigm...While MSP has become a popular subject of academic scrutiny, there is a dearth of theoretically-informed, social science MSP papers.

An opinion piece published in the New York Times in March 2018 " "Bigger Is Not Better for Ocean Conservation" " raised anew the issue of whether MPA designations should focus on large offshore sites or smaller inshore ones. 

A haunting cover image on the June issue of National Geographic is circulating online, suggesting the plastic pollution we see is just the tip of the iceberg. Click on the link below to read the full article

An announcement on Monday to add 18,000 hectares of land to the NSW conservation network " including land in the Greater Blue Mountains "  has been attacked by the Labor party and environment groups as a "drop in the ocean".Click on the link below to read the full article.

Countries with high levels of human well-being are more likely to show increasing forest growth. That"s the finding of a new study by a group of Finnish scientists...Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The Pacific island region is only 13 months away from having its' very own Pacific Climate Change Centre hosted at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa. Click on the link to read the full article.

In a recent study, Stanford scientists and their colleagues used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to modify genes in coral. Click on the link to read the full article.

A campaigner from Wimbledon will row across the Pacific Ocean in June to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Click on the link below to read the full article.

Ahead of the November 4 New Caledonian referendum for independence from French rule, France has made a strong commitment to the Indo-Pacific region with financial, political, and on-the-ground support and said a planned development bank would focus on climate change in the region.Click