Rocky coast at Otarawairere Bay Sustainable Seas 2020
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Rūruku mai taku Waka Taurua
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Exemplars and success factors of Waka Taurua research.

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Whakarite mai taku waka rangahau
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Preparing our research waka for working in partnership.

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He Waka Taurua
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What is a Waka Taurua?

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Wao Tāngata
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Reclaiming maramataka practice: Enabling cultural environmental indicator development through the restoration of ancestral practice.

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Wao Atua
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Maramataka informed cultural environmental indicator development.

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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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Te Korowai
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Reclaiming and preserving indigenous knowledge of coastal and marine ecosystems

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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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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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He Tirohanga Whāiti: Focus Area Report
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Report from Tangaroa Ararau – Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Tikanga Māori and the marine environment (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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Te Kete Kaitiakitanga
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Tools to enable kaitiakitanga & ecosystem-based management

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Guidance for using drones to monitor coastal ecosystems
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This report provides guidance on choosing a remote sensing platform and the use of UAVs for aerial monitoring of coastal rocky reef ecosyste…

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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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Ki uta ki tai: values and science for an informed kaitiaki / guardian
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Lohrer D, Awatere S, Paul-Burke K, Kitson J, Schwarz A-M (April 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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Preventing sun-induced skin damage with algae-derived compounds
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Report on workflow for molecular taxonomic identification of macroalgae
(November 2022)

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Te Ātiawa Report
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Report prepared for Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Trust (June 2019)

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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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Te ao Māori perspectives of marine scale
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Kainamu A & Rolleston-Gabel T (2023)

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Report to Ōhiwa Harbour Implementation Forum
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This report provides an update of the Pātangaroa hua rau project which is investigating the economic potential of collagen and bioactives fr…

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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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Financing restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine and coastal space
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This report highlights opportunities and challenges in building restorative economies in New Zealand from the investment and finance perspec…

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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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He Pou Tuārongo
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The purpose of this report is to draw on the foundational setting as well as the practice, opportunity and barrier narratives detailed by wh…

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He Poutokomanawa
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This infographic report provides an overview of some of the practices discussed throughout Whakaika Te Moana, as well as some insights into …

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He Pou Kai Āwha
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This infographic report provides an overview of the cultural context and indigenous world view within which Māori aquatic cultivation practi…

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A review of te ao Māori perspectives of marine scales and where these are impeded by contemporary management
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Kainamu A & Rolleston-Gabel T (September 2023)

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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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Key environmental considerations for seaweed aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Howarth L & Major R (October 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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Developing decision-support tools for cumulative effects management
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This report describes a conceptual decision support tool structure, and the associated principles and requirements for decision-support tool…

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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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Pātaka Kōrero: Collated Digital Resources
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This infographic report specifically focuses on 'Collections,' which is one of the key storage and access features of the pātaka system.

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Pātaka Kōrero: System Use and Key Learnings
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This report focuses on the ‘Content Access’ system and describes the three main features of the front-end user interface that collectively w…

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Innovation in the blue economy
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Auahatanga from Authenticity: Maximising opportunities for Akaroa Salmon and Ōnuku Rūnanga
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This report is focused primarily on auahatanga (differentiation) – differentiating kaitiaki-generated products from commodities and diversif…

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Literature review: Indigenising the blue economy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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This literature review explores three themes on both constraints and potential solutions for Māori transitioning to a blue economy. Rout M, …

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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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Hapū and iwi perceptions of cumulative effects: supporting kaitiakitanga
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This report presents some of the barriers faced by iwi and hapū across Aotearoa with regards to management of cumulative effects in freshwat…

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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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Scale dependencies and its influence on EBM
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This report provides a review of the existing knowledge of scale dependencies in Sustainable Seas research project and compares between phas…

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Quantifying and reducing interactions between commercial fishing gear and the seabed in New Zealand
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This report aims to support fishers to optimise their operations while minimising contact. Wilson O, Restrepo F, Bowman B, Lawson C, Smith S…

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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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Sustainability disclosures in the blue economy
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This report provides a stocktake of sustainability disclosure practices and initiatives globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a focus o…

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Building an interconnected blue economy in place
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This report briefly reviews the blue economy Sustainable Seas programme to date and identifies three main gaps for further attention in the …

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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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Developing blue economy principles for Aotearoa New Zealand
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This report reviews blue economy principles and their implementation internationally to inform the development of blue economy principles fo…

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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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Exploring the use of a system diagram and multi-variate analysis to understand multi-species complexes in fisheries
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This report details exploratory research on using a system diagram and multi-variate analysis to help understand how fisheries management of…

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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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Incorporating ecosystem-based management principles into regional coastal plans
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This report provides guidance to those about to commence a review of their Regional Coastal Plans prepared under the Resource Management Act…

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Applying analogue simulation - A qualitative process to explore the socio-ecological flow-on impacts in a system in response to modelled biophysical changes
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One of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay case study. This report describes the analogue simulation process that integrates…

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Development of a seafloor model of disturbance impacts on benthic structure in the Hawke’s Bay
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One of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay regional study. This report describes the adaptation of the seafloor disturbance …

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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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Enabling ecosystem-based management in the Hawke’s Bay: Overview of stages one and two of the case study process
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One of three reports prepared for stage two of Hawke’s Bay regional study. This report describes the full process including stage one (syste…

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Encouraging coastal and marine restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand
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This report is a starting point in the development of knowledge, frameworks, and decision-support tools to enable restorative economies to e…

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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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Ecosystem service metrics for restorative marine economies in Aotearoa New Zealand
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This summary details requirements for ecosystem service metrics that can guide restorative economies (March 2022)

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Marine and coastal ecotourism - national and regional picture (part 2): Operator survey and interviews
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This report provides baseline information about Aotearoa’s marine and coastal ecotourism (MCET) sector, and sector aspirations for the futur…

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Marine and coastal ecotourism - national and regional picture (part 1): Operator database and map
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This report provides baseline information on the size and activity profile of the sector in Aotearoa, and a contact list to help users furth…

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Stocktake and characterisation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s seaweed sector: Environmental effects of seaweed wild-harvest and aquaculture
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This report describes the ecosystem services provided by seaweed and the potential environmental impacts of a seaweed sector. Clark DE, Newc…

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Stocktake and characterisation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s seaweed sector: Species characteristics and Te Tiriti o Waitangi considerations
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This report provides an overview of seaweed species in Aotearoa that have commercial potential, as well as recognition of their cultural imp…

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

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Kaitiaki-centred business models: 3 pou
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This poster summarises an analytical framework for examining kaitiaki-centred business models. A kaitiaki-centred business model is one that…

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Using ecosystem services to inform marine restorative economies
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This summary explains how understanding and communicating ecosystem services can assist ecosystem restoration (September 2021)

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

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

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

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