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Marine Spatial Planning in the Age of Climate Change A new book, Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation, was launched in early 2025 capturing a wide range of insights and diverse voices involved in shaping the future of marine conservation around the planet. It brings together scholars, practitioners, and experts from multiple fields, creating a network of trans-disciplinary and multicultural perspectives to address the complex challenges facing our ocean. One of its 24 chapters, Chapter 8. Marine Spatial Planning in the Age of Climate Change, is co-authored by the PI, Catarina Frazão Santos, and Advisory Board members Tundi Agardy and Elena Gissi. The chapter focuses on extending the approach of managing marine ecosystems to include full cross-sectoral marine spatial planning (MSP) that takes climate change into consideration. This approach goes beyond protection for biodiversity to spatial planning for conservation as well as all human uses, initially in the exclusive economic zones of nations. Over the last 20 years, MSP has been developed around the globe. But one limitation has been that the spatial plots have been static (as on land). MSP in the age of climate change requires much more dynamic thinking because marine habitats, organisms, and the people who use them move around with variation in ocean climate. The book was conceptualized, led and edited by Advisory Board member Larry B. Crowder, professor at the University of Stanford and a leading voice in the field of marine conservation globally. He curated contributions on a wide range of topics, from critically endangered species in the Bahamas to protected areas in Antarctica, and small-scale fisheries worldwide. The volume delves deeply into the relationships between humans and nature, the development of climate-smart solutions, and the governance of collective action. With a strong commitment to inclusivity, the book fosters dialogue across disciplines of natural and social sciences, integrating both Western and Indigenous knowledge traditions. It features contributions from 56 authors representing 13 countries —Argentina, Barbados, the Bahamas, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Sri Lanka, and the United States. The book is of particular relevance to marine conservation scholars, practitioners, managers, and students of marine conservation. It is freely available for download in its entirety or by individual chapter. Find the links for download on the right! |
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