The Skimmer/MEAM Archives

September 2015 (8:6)

• The EBM Toolbox: Tools and Resources for Planning the Canadian North Pacific Coast

• Notes & News: Handbook analyzes EBM policies - European offshore wind power growing rapidly - Construction starts on first US wind farm - MSP process launched in Malaysian biodiversity hotspot - Principles help managers avoid dramatic ecosystem shifts

June - August 2015 (8:5)

• Getting business on board: Engaging the business community in ocean planning

• Tundi’s Take: Ocean planners, want to engage business? Start walking the walk and talking the talk

• “If the fishers are having coffee, you drink coffee with them”: MSP in St. Kitts and Nevis — a Discussion

• The EBM Toolbox: Marxan, Present and Future

• Notes & News: Ocean prosperity - Ireland - Pope and marine EBM - Letter to editor

April - May 2015 (8:4)

• Retrospective: Experts see progress on EBM but warn of risk of “all planning but little action”

• Tundi’s Take | EBM: Time to stop talking and start doing

• Making MSP happen: Practitioners talk realizations and resources

• Notes & News: Canada – Blue Halo – Seychelles – SIDS – US – Blue economy – Ocean valuation – Ocean Health Index – Climate change – MSP impacts – Asia and Caribbean – Tradeoffs in values – Myths of EBFM – Good Environmental Status – MSP concierge

• Letter to the editor: Turning science into policy

February - March 2015 (8:3)

• Turning science into policy: What scientists should (and should not) do when talking to policy-makers

• Tundi’s Take: Science uptake requires good delivery AND a receptive audience

• Perspective: Learning to speak about Ecosystem Services

• Perspective: Getting around ideology - When facts divide more than unite

• Notes & News: Ocean governance and industry - Ocean carbon storage - Fishers' view of climate change - Ocean extinction event - EBM approaches - EBM Toolbox

December 2014 - January 2015 (8:2)

• Perspective: Ocean tipping points and the language of change

• Interview on the Ocean Tipping Points project

• New Year's resolutions for ocean planning and management: Practitioners offer their suggestions for 2015

• Tundi's Take: Time well spent

• Notes & News: MSP study - Fish Carbon - Blue carbon - Mangrove management - MSP game

• The EBM Toolbox: Tools and resources to address climate change impacts on marine ecosystems

October - November 2014 (8:1)

• Payment for ecosystem services: An idea whose time has come for marine resource management?

• Tundi's Take: Payments for ecosystem services should be done in tandem with ocean zoning

• New guide and website walk readers through the how-to of evaluating marine spatial plans

• Notes & News: MSP survey – Integration in MSP – Fisheries and climate change – Balancing food security and conservation

August - September 2014 (7:6)

• Improving ocean management by addressing population and human health concerns: Insights from Madagascar and the Philippines

• Tundi’s Take: Is the link between ocean health and human health the sleeping dragon?

• Perspective: Managing new Central Arctic Ocean fisheries in an era of global warming

• Letter to the Editor: Combining approaches to address scale challenges

• Notes & News: Small island developing states - Deep sea mining - Large-scale conservation - Climate change and fisheries - Financing fishery transition projects

June - July 2014 (7:5)

• Mismatches between the scale of ecosystems and the scale of management: How practitioners are addressing this challenge

• Tundi’s Take: Are we too preoccupied with scale?

• Perspective: Navigating long time horizons and uncertainty in planning

• Notes & News: Belgium – England – EU – Ecosystem services – Blue carbon – Ocean acidification – Map of European MSP – Using film to inspire management action

April - May 2014 (7:4)

• Managing for resilient ecosystems: Faced with limited budgets, should we protect the healthiest or restore the degraded?

• Tundi’s Take: Can we ever hope to manage for resilience?

• Letter to the Editor: Marine conservation and sustainable food production are not on a collision course

• Notes & News: Global Ocean Commission – Marine conservation movement – MSP survey – Climate change impacts – Marine planning – Coral Triangle EBM

• MSP in theory vs. reality: Preliminary governance findings of MESMA project

• Film sequel Ocean Frontiers II continues work to inspire action on marine spatial planning

December 2013 - January 2014 (7:3)

• Are catch shares compatible with ecosystem-based management? Experts respond

• Tundi’s Take: Can anything as narrow as catch shares propel us toward EBM?

• Letters to the Editor: More responses on whether marine conservation and food production are on a collision course

• Perspective: Reducing non-climate stresses - not always a good idea?

• The EBM Toolbox: From Paper to Digital - The Mobile App Revolution in Fisheries

• Notes & News: MSP for maritime sector - MSP movie - Arctic MSP - Canadian libraries closed

October - November 2013 (7:2)

• Are marine conservation and sustainable food production on a collision course?: Experts respond

• Tundi's Take: Can we have our fish and eat them, too?