Ecosystem-based management in Aotearoa New Zealand (UN Ocean Decade Laboratory)

This webinar presentation and discussion was led by early-career researchers working with Sustainable Seas. March 2022 (1hr45m + 15m Q&A)

This event shared our multi-stakeholder approach of aiming for a healthy and resilient ocean via holistic, ecosystem-based management (EBM), from the perspective of Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2 hour event included presentations and interviews with leading practitioners from Sustainable Seas, and finished in an open panel discussion.

This was a satellite event to the UN Ocean Decade Laboratory - A Healthy & Resilient Ocean.

Watch the recording:

Related projects & activities

Credit: Kura Paul Burke

Awhi Mai Awhi Atu: Enacting a kaitiakitanga-based approach to EBM

This project combines mātauranga Māori, science and local kaitiakitanga to better understand the culturally and socially important species in Ōhiwa Harbour.

This project has produced or contributed to

Credit: Brady Doak

Modelling restorative economies

Determining the benefits of small-scale, community-based marine restoration initiatives

This project has produced or contributed to

Credit: Ōhiwa Harbour, Sustainable Seas

Ecological responses to cumulative effects

This project brings together mātauranga Māori and science to develop new knowledge about cumulative effects

This project has produced or contributed to

Communicating risk and uncertainty

Creating guidelines, models and tools that explicitly identify risk and uncertainty, to help make decision-making more inclusive and multi-sectorial.

This project has produced or contributed to