UNEP: EBM for Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

UNEP has launched a new training resource: “Taking Steps toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-based Management – An Introductory Guide” laying out a series of principles to guide management towards long-term sustainability of marine and coastal ecosystems with three main sections:
1: Making the case for EBM – Why and how is change necessary?;
2: Examining the core elements of EBM;
3: Moving towards EBM: Visioning – Planning – Implementation.

The target audience of the Guide includes planners and decision-makers in local, national and regional governments and communities across a broad spectrum of interests and uses and is not intended to be a technical manual or textbook, but rather an introduction to EBM principles and ‘thinking’.