Improving understanding and communication of scale-dependencies for EBM
Project Leader | Duration | Budget |
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Joanne Ellis (University of Waikato) | April 2022 – December 2023 | $400,000 |
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a dynamic process, focused on understanding and managing ecosystems across a range of organisational (eg iwi, hapū and whānau; local councils, regional councils and central government agencies), spatial (eg local, regional, national) and temporal scales (eg past, present and future effects).
Despite the importance of scale, scale-dependency in different disciplines, and the interactions between them, is rarely explicitly stated and acknowledged as affecting both the decision-making process and its success.
While some Sustainable Seas research explicitly focuses on producing results for different scales, there are gaps in understanding of how EBM can be achieved across a variety of scales. Scale also influences components that may have to change if jurisdictional boundaries or management resolutions are changed, such as the prediction of impacts from cumulative interactions, the return periods of events for management, or the creation of spatial and temporal rules for consenting.
To support development of decision-making practices that explicitly identify scale and scale-dependencies to increase the success of EBM decision-making processes we are:
Joanne Ellis (University of Waikato)
Judi Hewitt (University of Auckland)
Simon Thrush (University of Auckland)
Karen Fisher (University of Auckland)
Taciano Milfont (University of Waikato)
Elizabeth MacPherson (University of Canterbury)
Erica Williams (NIWA)
Eric Jorgensen (Ocean Bay Farm)
Ani Kainamu (NIWA)
Aquaculture NZ Waikato Regional Council Bay of Plenty Regional Council Shane Geange (Department of Conservation)
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