The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 requires the formation of local groundwater sustainability agencies that must assess conditions in their local basins and adopt locally-based management plans. The act provides substantial time - 20 years - for GSAs to implement and achieve long-term groundwater sustainability. It protects existing surface water and groundwater … [Read more...]
How Ocean Pollution Affects Humans
How ocean pollution affects humans – Graphic by the team at DIVE.in … [Read more...]
Engaging, Engaged Management Strategies: A Battle at Every Scale
Wasson et al discuss implementing an ecosystem based management program at Elkhorn Slough, a Californian estuary, in Lessons learned from an ecosystem-based management approach to restoration of a California estuary. The ‘lessons learned’ leave us with great recommendations – engage stakeholders of different perspectives, fund for the long haul, develop specific management … [Read more...]
Ecosystem-Based System in Practice
Restoring the structure of an ecosystem, although seemingly complex because of the great amount of land an ecosystem may constitute, is in practicality difficult to complete because of the many stakeholders involved. In Kerstin Wasson et al.'s "Lessons learned from an ecosystem-based management approach to restoration of a California estuary," they discuss the difficulties … [Read more...]
Cost-Benefit Analysis of EBM in Massachusetts Bay
In the world of ecosystem-based management (EBM) ecological preservation goes hand in hand with regulating human interaction with the environment. It is defined in the paper The interaction triangle as a tool for understanding stakeholder interactions in marine ecosystem based management by Rockmann et. al as “an integrated approach to management that considers entire … [Read more...]