Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program announces Ecosystem Based Management White Papers
The Evolution of Ecosystem Based Management: From Theory to Practice, the 2006 Marine Law Symposium held at Roger Williams University School of Law, provided analysis of ecosystem based management -- a multi-faceted, integrated approach that strives to maintain healthy, productive and resilient ecosystems. The Symposium emphasized the management and protection of the marine environment, with discussion of challenges, lessons and solutions related to socio-economic and political factors influencing implementation of EBM within the terrestrial environment and the goods and services required by user populations, including human. Presentations and discussion revealed that the rapid changes in human demography and spatial distribution over the short-term make a strong argument for more comprehensive, integrated approaches to coastal resource management. Such approaches include environmental ethics -- the success of which depends on achieving not just conservation goals but serving economic, cultural, and social needs as well; a system-based analysis of watershed management (or "ecozoning"); adaptive management; and ecosystem modeling to engage local resource users.
Speakers from the conference who submitted papers include:
Ronald C. Baird, Ecosystem Based Management of Coastal Resources: Performance Enhancement at the Science Policy Interface
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, Incorporating Environmental Ethics into Ecosystem-based Management
Alan Desbonnet and Barry A. Costa-Pierce, Considering an “Ecofunctional-zoning” Approach to Ecosystem-based Management for Narragansett Bay
Kevin McAleese, Ecosystem-Based Management Lessons from Recent Applications in Terrestrial and Marine Settings
The papers may be accessed by clicking on the following links:
2006 Marine Law Symposium
Ronald C. Baird Sea Grant Science Symposium Papers
Thank you for your continued interest in the endeavors of RI Sea Grant.
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