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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…

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

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

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

Hewitt J, Gladstone‐Gallagher R & Thrush S (2022)

This summary highlights the findings of three academic publications from the Challenge (April 2024)

This summary details important advances for marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based management (April 2024)

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

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

This summary explains the key concepts of restorative economies and outlines an impact investment framework to guide questions and steps whe…

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

Assessing the environmental effects of seaweed aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (September 2023)

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

This summary facilitates translation and communication of concepts of cumulative effects on marine ecosystems, and how they can be managed w…

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

This summary suggests a series of questions which will enable environmental managers and scientists to understand the potential for unexpect…

This is a summary of research findings into options for policy and legislative change to enable ecosystem-based management across scales in …

This summary provides guidance on what the blue economy principles mean in practice to inform implementation (June 2023)

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

This is a summary of our research into environmental governance arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand to identify enabling conditions (or pou…

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

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

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

This is a summary of the processes behind and key insights from research into understanding multi species finfish complexes. (November 2022)

This is a summary of research to determine whether system dynamic mapping is a useful exercise for FNZ management purposes, including whethe…

This is a summary of the agent-based modelling (ABM) component of research into its potential for informing ecosystem-based management in fi…

This is a summary of research into existing legal and policy mechanisms that support implementing EBM at the regional and local scale, publi…

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

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

This impact case study demonstrates the role Sustainable Seas research has played in understanding the current sector in Aotearoa New Zealan…

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…

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

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

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

This summary details requirements for ecosystem service metrics that can guide restorative economies (March 2022)

This is a 2-page summary of the systems mapping exercise undertaken for Stage 1 of the Hawke's Bay regional study.

This summary explains how understanding and communicating ecosystem services can assist ecosystem restoration (September 2021)

This summary lays the foundations for developing restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand marine and coastal spaces through a desktop r…

This impact case study describes how a Mātauranga Māori and science collaboration is restoring kūtai/mussel beds and community connections i…

This impact case study describes how estuary guidance created by our research is supporting marine managers, and decision-makers (August 202…

This impact case study describes how our researchers are sharing EBM knowledge and building lasting relationships with students and teachers…

This impact case study describes how a collaborative project is putting our EBM tools into action to understand and better manage the seabed…

This discussion paper covers 5 critical issues for marine management under the current regulatory framework. (August 2021).

This is a research round-up of our tools and resources that are relevant to marine managers, kaitiaki and decision-makers. Many were – or ar…

This is a summary of a comparative study of EBM in the laws and policies of Chile, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, published June 2021.

This 1-page 'postcard' summarises research that investigated the viability of generating electricity from the strong tidal currents within C…

This is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research that support an EBM approach to fisheries management. It is a living docume…

This 1-page 'postcard' summarises research into the resilience of common sponge and dog cockles to suspended sediments.

This impact case study describes how a public engagement tool has led to biosecurity and commercial benefits (August 2020).

This impact case study describes how recommendations for designing robust monitoring programmes are being taken up by regional councils (Aug…