In October of last year, MEAM launched a new feature, ‘From the Archives’, that calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. This issue’s From the Archives article, "Getting business on board: Engaging the business community in ocean planning”, from the June-August 2015 issue offers great advice to ocean planners for working with ocean businesses. We encourage you to check out this article and take advantage of all of MEAM’s past articles providing practical advice for EBM and ocean planning.
And we are pleased to add another training opportunity incorporating marine spatial planning (MSP) into our MSP training compilation – the UGent Blue Growth Summer School being held from September 12-23, 2016, in Ostend, Belgium.
Best wishes for your work,
Sarah Carr, MEAM Editor
[email protected]
MEAM (Marine Ecosystems and Management) Newsletter – June 2016
Planning for equity and social justice in ocean use. Some groups benefit more, or are perceived to benefit more, than others from ocean planning processes. The way stakeholders view the fairness of an ocean planning process and the plan that results from it can in turn influence how successfully the plan can be implemented. Learn what ocean planners can do to more formally account for equity and social justice considerations.
Serve the aspirations of the stakeholders or fail: Thoughts on the state of marine resource management, ocean planning, social justice, and equity in the Pacific Small Island Developing States by Hugh Govan. “Despite the importance of the ocean to Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), there is a surprising lack of ocean planning and, with only a few exceptions, a dire lack of marine resource management in general.” Read more from Hugh Govan, an ocean and fisheries policy and governance consultant.
Tundi’s Take: Equity in ocean management is about preserving ocean health AND access. “The push to label extractive industries as evil, simply because, when poorly managed, these uses have indeed caused irreversible changes, has meant that many users are denied access even if they intend to use the oceans sustainably… People’s use rights and the basis for their sense of stewardship cannot be eclipsed by a conservationist agenda that strives to stop ocean use.” Read more.
The EBM Toolbox: Tools and data for improving fisheries policy worldwide. The Sea Around Us initiative has reconstructed catch data for over 250 Exclusive Economic Zones to provide some of the comprehensive global fisheries data needed to improve policy. Learn about free tools for examining, accessing, and using these data.
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
World Bank urges caution in mining the deep sea in the Pacific
Draft of first ocean plan for US federal waters released
Request for input on MSP decision support tools
New book analyzes successes and failures of transboundary conservation initiatives
From the Archives: Getting business on board: Engaging the business community in ocean planning (MEAM Jun-Aug 2015, Issue 8:5). ‘From the Archives’ calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. Read what industry leaders have to say about what ocean planning practitioners should (and should not) do to engage the ocean business community.
View/print the full issue: https://meam.openchannels.org/print/meam/issue/june-2016-98.
MEAM (Marine Ecosystems and Management)
Editor: Sarah Carr
Supervising Editor: John B. Davis
Contributing Editor: Tundi Agardy
OpenChannels Manager: Nick Wehner
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Chair: David Fluharty, University of Washington
Kevern Cochrane, Rhodes University
Jon Day, James Cook University
Mark Erdmann, Conservation International
Ben Halpern, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Karen McLeod, Oregon State University
Jake Rice, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Kristin Sherwood, FishChoice
Kevin Stokes, Fisheries consultant
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