The MARXAN Good Practices Handbook, written by more than two dozen volunteers in a year-long international collaboration, which offers guidance on better conservation planning from some of the most experienced people in the field was translated to Spanish and posted on various sites worldwide.
Assisting in the development of strategies to develop and test methods for trade-offs analysis for ecosystem services (Marine InVEST). PacMARA hosted a 2 day workshop to solicit input from a diverse set of stakeholders who were interested in the development of ecosystem service trade-off tools that could be used in BC.
Ed Gregr, Dave Nicolson and [...]
PacMARA partnered with the B.C. Conservation Planning Tools Committee (CPTC) for the workshop with a goal to review the current and planned marine biodiversity spatial analyses and/or conservation planning assessment projects (tools) available in BC and to identify how the tools can be used individually and together as an assessment “system” of the status of marine biodiversity and as a foundation of a conceptual framework to guide conservation planning in BC.
Version 2 of the Marxan Good Practices Handbook has just been released in July 2010!
As Fisheries and Oceans Canada moved towards implementing Integrated Management in the North and Central Coasts of British Columbia, several options were evaluated for the placement of administrative boundaries. This report reviewed three proposed boundaries that span the Central and North Coasts, and made note of one other in the Central Coast (Figure 1). From these inputs two recommendations were developed:
In this paper, an analysis of the literature around governance, collaboration, complexity, the role of science in society, and new thinking about resource management was undertaken to show that collaborations such as PacMARA might actually be better at asking and answering the questions needed to inform an ecosystem-based management approach.
Lectures on “First Nations struggle to have their aboriginal rights and title recognized and respected in today’s economy” and “MARINE NIGHT: Whales, satellites and cold lunches on the edge of Antarctica” coming up at UVic!
The Pacific Salmon Commission revised its estimates, predicting 25 million sockeye are bound for the Fraser River this summer. That is more than double the early summer forecast, making it the best run since 1913.
US President Obama has established the country’s first comprehensive national policy for the stewardship of the oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. This national policy will set the United States on a new path toward comprehensively planning for the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean.
There is so much happening in BC’s oceans these days it is hard to keep tabs on it all.
It’s hard to think about anything but the BP oil spill on this year’s World Ocean Day.
As hundreds of thousands of litres of oil gush into our global ocean from the offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, today of all days, we need to think about the health of our oceans.
I spend a lot of time thinking about marine planning and management. And as we all know, one of the best ways to learn is to look at the past. So this thought has reminded me of a study I did a few years ago in Istanbul, Turkey – a review of planning [...]
PacMARA keeps an extensive inventory of links to online tools and resources for marine planning. Click here to see all of our links.
