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He Tauira – Exemplars of Te Ao Tūroa
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A podcast series showcasing Te Ao Tūroa principles through case studies (June 2024)

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Te Ao Tūroa wānanga – Rangatahi insights on exploring Te Ao Tūroa principles and Whakapapa o te Wai
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Videos sharing thoughts from two rangatahi who attended the wānanga (June 2024)

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Te Ao Tūroa Principles – Whakapapa, Mauri and Mana with the Mātāpuna
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Podcast series exploring the key integrity markers that bind and guide the Te Ao Tūroa Framework (June 2024)

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He Tapuwae – Concepts and principles of a Te Ao Tūroa informed economy
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A podcast describing the principles of Te Ao Turoa and how they relate to, and can inform, the development of Māori economies (June 2024)

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He Waka Māori – Mana and Mana Motuhake with the Mātāpuna
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Podcasts exploring the key concepts and principles of mana and mana motuhake (June 2024)

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Ngā Aho Kōrero – The Te Ao Māori Synthesis Journey
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A podcast featuring discussions with Te Ao Maori synthesis activity leads (June 2024)

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Wao Tupuna
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Reclaiming ancestral knowledge of maramataka to inform cultural environmental indicator development.

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Creating a sustainable supply of seed mussels using mātauranga Māori
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Summary on using natural fibres from native plants known to mātauranga Māori for the replacement of plastic rope in mussel aquaculture (June…

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Te Au o Te Moana Podcast Series
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Series of interviews about Challenge research that has been influenced and underpinned by Te Ao Māori (June 2024)

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The Journey of Māori Fishing Rights in New Zealand
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Summary cards detailing the struggle, resilience, and adaptation of Māori Fishing Rights in New Zealand (May 2024)

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Legal enablers for ecosystem-based management
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Examples of legal enablers for ecosystem-based management (June 2024)

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Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance Summary
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Summary prepared for the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance (April 2024)

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Empowering Māori knowledge in marine decision-making
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Recommendations to achieve the benefits of marine decision-making that is informed by mātauranga Māori (May 2024)

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Addressing risk and uncertainty in decision-making
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Recommendations for better risk assessment methods (May 2024)

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Developing pathways to a flourishing blue economy
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Recommendations for building pathways towards a blue economy (May 2024)

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Marine governance – sustaining ocean outcomes for future generations
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Recommendations for effective and appropriate marine governance (May 2024)

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Restoring marine ecosystems through better management and financing
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Recommendations to foster a restorative blue economy (May 2024)

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Enabling ecosystem-based management in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine law and policy
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Recommendations to ensure healthy outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand’s ocean and people (May 2024)

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Addressing cumulative effects in marine management decisions
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Recommendations for addressing cumulative effects (May 2024)

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Enabling effective marine spatial planning for ecological and economic wellbeing
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Recommendations for marine spatial planning in Aotearoa New Zealand (May 2024)

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Enabling a broad knowledge base for marine management decisions
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Recommendations for marine management decisions and advice to be supported by different types of knowledge (May 2024)

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Disturbance-recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery
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Hewitt J, Gladstone‐Gallagher R & Thrush S (2022)

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An ecological principles-based approach to guide coastal environmental management
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This summary highlights the findings of three academic publications from the Challenge (April 2024)

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Integrating interactive stressors within marine spatial planning using spatial modelling and decision support tools
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This summary details important advances for marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based management (April 2024)

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Utilising ecosystem services to support marine ecosystem management
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This summary provides an overview of how ecosystem services can be used as a tool in marine management and ecosystem-based management (March…

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Financing coastal and marine restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand
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This summary gives the main points of a report on opportunities and challenges in building restorative economies in New Zealand from the inv…

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Restorative marine economies: a framework for mobilising ecosystem-level investments
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This summary explains the key concepts of restorative economies and outlines an impact investment framework to guide questions and steps whe…

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Improving the marine management framework to make good decisions on seabed mining
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This summary details managing seabed mining and other marine activities, and recommends improvements to the marine management framework (Feb…

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Revitalising mātauranga Māori in marine management
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Using research for legislation, policy, and planning for healthy seas
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Building a seaweed sector
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Upholding the value of pāua quota
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This research looks at how we can uphold long-term fishery values, the value of commercial quota, and the ecological role that pāua play in …

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Factsheet: Environmental considerations for seaweed aquaculture
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Assessing the environmental effects of seaweed aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (September 2023)

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Managing cumulative effects in the marine environment
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This is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research related to managing cumulative effects in the marine environment (May 2023)

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Understanding cumulative effects from a Te Ao Māori perspective
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This summary facilitates translation and communication of concepts of cumulative effects on marine ecosystems, and how they can be managed w…

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Using the Seafloor Disturbance Model to understand the dynamics of seafloor disturbance and recovery
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This summary showcases the seafloor model of disturbance and recovery dynamics which can be used to explore the implications of changes in t…

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Coastal ecosystem management: Managing multiple stressors by considering network interactions
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This summary suggests a series of questions which will enable environmental managers and scientists to understand the potential for unexpect…

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Innovation in the blue economy
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Designing law and policy for the health and resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems
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This is a summary of research findings into options for policy and legislative change to enable ecosystem-based management across scales in …

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Blue Economy Principles for Aotearoa New Zealand
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This summary provides guidance on what the blue economy principles mean in practice to inform implementation (June 2023)

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Users of Sustainable Seas research for ecosystem-based management
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This summary provides insight into the potential users of our research into ecosystem-based management. Schwarz AM, Flowers G & Hewitt J (Ju…

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Learning from innovative governance examples to enhance EBM practices
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This is a summary of our research into environmental governance arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand to identify enabling conditions (or pou…

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Cumulative effects erode resilience in coastal ecosystems
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This summary gives the main points of three articles published between 2021 and 2023, which highlight how cumulative effects can induce an o…

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Conference research posters
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The below posters were presented at our 2023 conference, Te Au o Te Moana.

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Reclaiming indigenous knowledge for marine management
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This impact case study describes incorporating mātauranga Māori into marine management strategies to improve coastal indicators (August 2022…

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Influencing environmental policy
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This impact case study describes how research into ecosystem-based management is helping to shape environmental legislation (August 2022)

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Understanding multi species finfish complexes in Tasman and Golden Bay: Process overview and key insights
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This is a summary of the processes behind and key insights from research into understanding multi species finfish complexes. (November 2022)

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System dynamic mapping and managing multi-species complexes: Key variables and linkages
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This is a summary of research to determine whether system dynamic mapping is a useful exercise for FNZ management purposes, including whethe…

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Co-developing an agent-based model to support ecosystem-based management decision-making
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This is a summary of the agent-based modelling (ABM) component of research into its potential for informing ecosystem-based management in fi…

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Characterising the regulatory seascape in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for policy and practice
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This is a summary of research into existing legal and policy mechanisms that support implementing EBM at the regional and local scale, publi…

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Our research in action
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These impact case studies show our research is supporting management, influencing policy, and inspiring the next generation. Each was develo…

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EBM, MSP and MPA: Explained
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This short explainer video was created to help clarify the overlap and distinction between EBM, MSP, and MPA, and how they can be used toget…

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Seaweed Summit
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The first ever Seaweed Summit in Aotearoa New Zealand was held on 7 October 2022, organised in partnership with ANZSA, Aquaculture NZ and Ca…

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Virtual field trips for schoolchildren
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These field trips were created (in partnership with LEARNZ) for primary school children across the country to virtually travel and experienc…

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Māori marine economy: Its definition, principles, and structure
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This paper defines the Māori marine economy, outlines its structure, and highlights challenges for Māori marine-based enterprises engaged in…

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Strategically launching a rimurimu/seaweed sector 
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This impact case study demonstrates the role Sustainable Seas research has played in understanding the current sector in Aotearoa New Zealan…

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Enabling cumulative effects management 
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This impact case study demonstrates how our research is having a real-time impact on how our marine environment is managed to reduce the imp…

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EBM as urban transport
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This infographic uses the analogy of urban transport requirements to explain ecosystem-based management (EBM).

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Treaty-based marine governance & EBM
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This booklet and accompanying poster (May 2022) summarise key concepts and/or information from the 2020 report 'Stemming the colonial enviro…

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Kāwanatanga ‘Future Search’ workshop summary report
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A summary of the 1-day workshop with the Kāwanatanga sphere in which we a collaborative engagement and action-planning tool called Future Se…

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Seafood: Tools, resources and research
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This is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research that support an ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach to the seafood in…

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Research Book 2022
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This book provides key information about Sustainable Seas, and concise plain language summaries of all active/complete 2019–2024 (Phase II) …

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Te Au o Te Moana story series
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This series aims to whakamana (empower) the voices of researchers, co-developers, Māori partners and communities of research and practice as…

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