Preparing our research waka for working in partnership.
ViewReclaiming maramataka practice: Enabling cultural environmental indicator development through the restoration of ancestral practice.
ViewReclaiming ancestral knowledge of maramataka to inform cultural environmental indicator development.
ViewReclaiming and preserving indigenous knowledge of coastal and marine ecosystems
ViewSummary on using natural fibres from native plants known to mātauranga Māori for the replacement of plastic rope in mussel aquaculture (June…
ViewSummary cards detailing the struggle, resilience, and adaptation of Māori Fishing Rights in New Zealand (May 2024)
ViewReport from Tangaroa Ararau – Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Tikanga Māori and the marine environment (May 2024)
ViewExamples of legal enablers for ecosystem-based management (June 2024)
ViewSummary prepared for the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance (April 2024)
ViewThis report provides guidance on choosing a remote sensing platform and the use of UAVs for aerial monitoring of coastal rocky reef ecosyste…
ViewRecommendations to achieve the benefits of marine decision-making that is informed by mātauranga Māori (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for better risk assessment methods (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for building pathways towards a blue economy (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for effective and appropriate marine governance (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations to foster a restorative blue economy (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations to ensure healthy outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand’s ocean and people (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for addressing cumulative effects (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for marine spatial planning in Aotearoa New Zealand (May 2024)
ViewRecommendations for marine management decisions and advice to be supported by different types of knowledge (May 2024)
ViewLohrer D, Awatere S, Paul-Burke K, Kitson J, Schwarz A-M (April 2024)
ViewHewitt J, Gladstone‐Gallagher R & Thrush S (2022)
ViewThis summary highlights the findings of three academic publications from the Challenge (April 2024)
ViewThis summary details important advances for marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based management (April 2024)
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Report on workflow for molecular taxonomic identification of macroalgae
(November 2022)
This summary provides an overview of how ecosystem services can be used as a tool in marine management and ecosystem-based management (March…
ViewThis report provides an update of the Pātangaroa hua rau project which is investigating the economic potential of collagen and bioactives fr…
ViewThis summary gives the main points of a report on opportunities and challenges in building restorative economies in New Zealand from the inv…
ViewThis summary explains the key concepts of restorative economies and outlines an impact investment framework to guide questions and steps whe…
ViewThis report highlights opportunities and challenges in building restorative economies in New Zealand from the investment and finance perspec…
ViewThis summary details managing seabed mining and other marine activities, and recommends improvements to the marine management framework (Feb…
ViewThis research looks at how we can uphold long-term fishery values, the value of commercial quota, and the ecological role that pāua play in …
ViewThe purpose of this report is to draw on the foundational setting as well as the practice, opportunity and barrier narratives detailed by wh…
ViewThis infographic report provides an overview of some of the practices discussed throughout Whakaika Te Moana, as well as some insights into …
ViewThis infographic report provides an overview of the cultural context and indigenous world view within which Māori aquatic cultivation practi…
ViewKainamu A & Rolleston-Gabel T (September 2023)
ViewAssessing the environmental effects of seaweed aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (September 2023)
ViewHowarth L & Major R (October 2023)
ViewThis is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research related to managing cumulative effects in the marine environment (May 2023)
ViewThis summary facilitates translation and communication of concepts of cumulative effects on marine ecosystems, and how they can be managed w…
ViewThis report describes a conceptual decision support tool structure, and the associated principles and requirements for decision-support tool…
ViewThis summary showcases the seafloor model of disturbance and recovery dynamics which can be used to explore the implications of changes in t…
ViewThis summary suggests a series of questions which will enable environmental managers and scientists to understand the potential for unexpect…
ViewThis infographic report specifically focuses on 'Collections,' which is one of the key storage and access features of the pātaka system.
ViewThis report focuses on the ‘Content Access’ system and describes the three main features of the front-end user interface that collectively w…
ViewThis report is focused primarily on auahatanga (differentiation) – differentiating kaitiaki-generated products from commodities and diversif…
ViewThis literature review explores three themes on both constraints and potential solutions for Māori transitioning to a blue economy. Rout M, …
ViewThis is a summary of research findings into options for policy and legislative change to enable ecosystem-based management across scales in …
ViewThis report presents some of the barriers faced by iwi and hapū across Aotearoa with regards to management of cumulative effects in freshwat…
ViewThis summary provides guidance on what the blue economy principles mean in practice to inform implementation (June 2023)
ViewThis summary provides insight into the potential users of our research into ecosystem-based management. Schwarz AM, Flowers G & Hewitt J (Ju…
ViewThis report provides a review of the existing knowledge of scale dependencies in Sustainable Seas research project and compares between phas…
ViewThis report aims to support fishers to optimise their operations while minimising contact. Wilson O, Restrepo F, Bowman B, Lawson C, Smith S…
ViewThis is a summary of our research into environmental governance arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand to identify enabling conditions (or pou…
ViewThis summary gives the main points of three articles published between 2021 and 2023, which highlight how cumulative effects can induce an o…
ViewThe below posters were presented at our 2023 conference, Te Au o Te Moana.
ViewThis report provides a stocktake of sustainability disclosure practices and initiatives globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a focus o…
ViewThis report briefly reviews the blue economy Sustainable Seas programme to date and identifies three main gaps for further attention in the …
ViewThis impact case study describes incorporating mātauranga Māori into marine management strategies to improve coastal indicators (August 2022…
ViewThis report reviews blue economy principles and their implementation internationally to inform the development of blue economy principles fo…
ViewThis impact case study describes how research into ecosystem-based management is helping to shape environmental legislation (August 2022)
ViewThis is a summary of the processes behind and key insights from research into understanding multi species finfish complexes. (November 2022)
ViewThis is a summary of research to determine whether system dynamic mapping is a useful exercise for FNZ management purposes, including whethe…
ViewThis is a summary of the agent-based modelling (ABM) component of research into its potential for informing ecosystem-based management in fi…
ViewThis report details exploratory research on using a system diagram and multi-variate analysis to help understand how fisheries management of…
ViewThis is a summary of research into existing legal and policy mechanisms that support implementing EBM at the regional and local scale, publi…
ViewThese impact case studies show our research is supporting management, influencing policy, and inspiring the next generation. Each was develo…
ViewThis report provides guidance to those about to commence a review of their Regional Coastal Plans prepared under the Resource Management Act…
ViewOne of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay case study. This report describes the analogue simulation process that integrates…
ViewOne of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay regional study. This report describes the adaptation of the seafloor disturbance …
ViewThis paper defines the Māori marine economy, outlines its structure, and highlights challenges for Māori marine-based enterprises engaged in…
ViewThis impact case study demonstrates the role Sustainable Seas research has played in understanding the current sector in Aotearoa New Zealan…
ViewThis impact case study demonstrates how our research is having a real-time impact on how our marine environment is managed to reduce the imp…
ViewOne of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay regional study. This report describes the full process including stage one (syste…
ViewThis report is a starting point in the development of knowledge, frameworks, and decision-support tools to enable restorative economies to e…
ViewThis booklet and accompanying poster (May 2022) summarise key concepts and/or information from the 2020 report 'Stemming the colonial enviro…
ViewA summary of the 1-day workshop with the Kāwanatanga sphere in which we a collaborative engagement and action-planning tool called Future Se…
ViewThis is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research that support an ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach to the seafood in…
ViewThis book provides key information about Sustainable Seas, and concise plain language summaries of all active/complete 2019–2024 (Phase II) …
ViewThis summary details requirements for ecosystem service metrics that can guide restorative economies (March 2022)
ViewThis report provides baseline information about Aotearoa’s marine and coastal ecotourism (MCET) sector, and sector aspirations for the futur…
ViewThis report provides baseline information on the size and activity profile of the sector in Aotearoa, and a contact list to help users furth…
ViewThis report describes the ecosystem services provided by seaweed and the potential environmental impacts of a seaweed sector. Clark DE, Newc…
ViewThis report provides an overview of seaweed species in Aotearoa that have commercial potential, as well as recognition of their cultural imp…
ViewThis is a 2-page summary of the systems mapping exercise undertaken for Stage 1 of the Hawke's Bay regional study.
ViewThis poster summarises an analytical framework for examining kaitiaki-centred business models. A kaitiaki-centred business model is one that…
ViewThis summary explains how understanding and communicating ecosystem services can assist ecosystem restoration (September 2021)
ViewThis summary lays the foundations for developing restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand marine and coastal spaces through a desktop r…
ViewThis impact case study describes how a Mātauranga Māori and science collaboration is restoring kūtai/mussel beds and community connections i…
ViewThis impact case study describes how estuary guidance created by our research is supporting marine managers, and decision-makers (August 202…
ViewThis impact case study describes how our researchers are sharing EBM knowledge and building lasting relationships with students and teachers…
ViewThis impact case study describes how a collaborative project is putting our EBM tools into action to understand and better manage the seabed…
ViewThis report assesses current demand, supply and regulation, and opportunities for (and barriers to) growth of the rimurimu/seaweed sector in…
ViewClark DE, Gladstone-Gallagher R, Stephenson F & Ellis J (May 2021)
ViewThis discussion paper covers 5 critical issues for marine management under the current regulatory framework. (August 2021).
ViewThis is a research round-up of our tools and resources that are relevant to marine managers, kaitiaki and decision-makers. Many were – or ar…
ViewThis is a summary of a comparative study of EBM in the laws and policies of Chile, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, published June 2021.
ViewThis 1-page 'postcard' summarises research that investigated the viability of generating electricity from the strong tidal currents within C…
ViewMātauranga Māori is a complex system of experiential knowledge that comprises intergenerational beliefs, values and practices that contribut…
ViewThis is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research that support an EBM approach to fisheries management. It is a living docume…
ViewThis 1-page 'postcard' summarises research into the resilience of common sponge and dog cockles to suspended sediments.
ViewThis impact case study describes how a public engagement tool has led to biosecurity and commercial benefits (August 2020).
ViewThis impact case study describes how recommendations for designing robust monitoring programmes are being taken up by regional councils (Aug…
ViewMilne S, Thorburn E, Rosin C, & Deuchar C
ViewThis book provides key information about Sustainable Seas, and concise plain language summaries of the 40 projects that were undertaken 2014…
ViewThe process of engagement, co-development, kawa and tikanga for the Ngā Tohu o Te Ao project.
ViewThis report summarises the processes and outputs from Stage 1 of the Hawke's Bay regional study. Connolly J, Lundquist C, Madarasz-Smith A,…
ViewThis A3 summarises what we are doing and how our research is developing knowledge and tools that can be applied by decision-makers and marin…
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