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The kaupapa and philosophy behind developing courses which teach environmental sustainability through an ecosystem-based management lens (Ma…

This guidance uses stressors and seabed ecosystem characteristics to determine the relationship between stressor and ecological response foo…

The knowledge, guidance, and tools needed to reverse degradation trends and realise a healthy ocean (May 2024)

Guidance on decision support tools for ecosystem-based management (April 2024)

Guidance on assessing the present ecological health of the area (May 2024)

A series of documents to address questions around enabling ecosystem-based management (May 2024)

This guidance contains the potential bioactives and composition data within two starfish species samples (November 2022)

A series of five quick guides on navigating risk and uncertainty in marine management (November 2023)

Blackett P, Awatere S, Le Heron E, Le Heron R, Logie J, Hyslop J, Ellis J, Stephenson F, Hewitt J, Ziedins I, Armoudian M, Bulmer R, Clark D…

This co-developed roadmap shows how Aotearoa New Zealand could grow its rimurimu/seaweed sector in a way for the country to gain environment…

This guidance explains what ecosystem service mapping is, and why it is useful for marine managers, planners, and other decision-makers. It …

The purpose of this guide is to help resource managers, kaitiaki and others to identify appropriate tools, developed and/or used by the Sus…

This document provides an ecological perspective on how to overcome ecological issues related to the use of national environmental limits. H…

This guidance outlines key lessons for managers to consider when designing long-term monitoring programmes for estuaries (July 2021)

This guidance recommends three steps to address social and political context in values-based decision making.

This guidance explains how Bayesian network models can combine data with expert knowledge (ecological, physical or Mātauranga Māori), to bri…

This guidance explains the cumulative effects of three significant coastal stressors and likely impact on ecosystem function, and provides m…

This describes how large numbers of different data sets can be effectively pooled to group marine species into 'community assemblages'. Thes…

Ecosystem service (ES) 'bundles' show how ES interact with each other and are affected by stressors – and which values might be affected for…

This guidance summarises the critical factors to consider, and the recommended data required, for a robust monitoring programme.

These guidelines have contributed to development of EIA template and guidance by the International Seabed Authority

A tool to guide collaborative management of cumulative effects across a range of scales

The 'Ingredients Tool' is a 1-page practical resource for marine managers, and others, to support broad participation in marine decision-mak…

This policy brief describes how our past and current research is addressing 4 significant issues facing New Zealand's marine ecosystems.