The ocean is the next frontier for many conservation and development activities. Growth in
marine protected areas, fisheries management, the blue economy, and marine spatial …

Integrated approaches to engage coastal communities in management are urgently needed
to address coastal change and associated uncertainty. Towards this aim, understanding the …

The term “ocean grabbing” has been used to describe actions, policies or initiatives that
deprive small-scale fishers of resources, dispossess vulnerable populations of coastal …

Coastal communities, indigenous peoples, and small-scale fishers rely on the ocean for
livelihoods, for subsistence, for wellbeing and for cultural continuity. Thus, understanding the …

Our global oceans are threatened by climate change, overfishing, pollution and a growing
list of other impacts that demonstrate an urgent global need for sustainable ocean …

Risk assessments quantify the probability of undesirable events along with their
consequences. They are used to prioritize management interventions and assess tradeoffs …

Conservation actions generally benefit some groups more than others, and this inequity is
thought to affect the probability of achieving conservation objectives. This has led to the …

Sociospatial information is critical to marine and coastal ecosystem management. The
Hawaii Coastal Uses Map** Project used a participatory geographic information systems …

Here, we synthesize conceptual frameworks, applied modeling approaches, and as case
studies to highlight complex social-ecological system (SES) dynamics that inform …

Marine ecosystem services are in global decline, which requires new transformational
changes in governance to cope with multiple anthropogenic stressors. We perform a …