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California Current Ecosystem-Based Management (CCEBM) Initiative Working Meeting

Santa Cruz, CA (January 2008)

Initiative Goal
This endeavor seeks to advance the social and natural science that can catalyze Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) within the U.S. portion of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME).

The CCEBM Initiative seeks to prepare key pieces of the science, assuming that all necessary political, management and legal structures are in place to achieve desired ecosystem goals. Although in reality, EBM is likely to be achieved through both incremental steps and more overarching changes to current institutional frameworks, the CCEBM Initiative is an opportunity to be forward thinking. Thus, the initiative will advance the science ultimately needed to implement integrated, multi-state, multi-sector ecosystem-based management along the U.S. west coast.

This initiative is a joint effort between the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) and the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is made possible by support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

CCEBM Working Meeting

The centerpiece of the CCEBM initiative was a working meeting of approximately 90 participants (social and biogeophysical scientists from a range of academic, government and private institutions, and key managers and policy makers) held on January 30-31, 2008 at the Seascape Resort in Aptos, CA and the Seymour Center at the University of California Santa Cruz Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz, CA.

The goal of the meeting was to evaluate and advance the science needed for scientifically-informed comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) along the U.S. West Coast. This goal was advanced using the following meeting activities:

Plenary talks about the emerging science of marine ecosystems (in general and specifically for the California Current region), a framework for applying trade-off analysis to support an EBM approach and applications of this framework to real world management and policy challenges along the U.S. west coast
Break-out group and plenary discussions to evaluate and apply the trade-off analysis framework, assess the state of the science needed for EBM along the U.S. west coast, develop research agendas to fill key science gaps, and discuss novel ways to connect emerging science to management and policy

Anticipated outcomes of the working meeting and initiative as a whole include:

A framework for applying science to EBM and examining trade-offs among ecosystem services is evaluated and further developed.
There is an improved understanding of and general agreement about the state of the science needed for comprehensive EBM along the U.S. west coast, including: determination of what we know, determination of the key scientific gaps in knowledge or information, and development of strategies to fill these key gaps.
Participants see how their own research or work connects to EBM science and application and will capitalize on these new connections.
New collaborations among scientists working in a diversity of social and natural science disciplines and at a range of institutions are established.
The scientific underpinnings of EBM are better applied to management and policy along the west coast.

Please refer below for a list of the available program and meeting materials. For further questions, please contact Karen McLeod.

Forthcoming Manuscripts

Ecosystem Service Tradeoff Analysis: This paper will present an approach to help frame thinking about trade-offs among multiple ecosystem services, discussing the conceptual underpinnings of the approach in economic theory. The paper will present numerous general insights that can be gained from using this approach, illustrating them with two simple examples.
Ecosystem Service Tradeoff Analysis one-page synopsis

The Many Faces of EBM: Making EBM Work Today in Real Places: This paper will lay out options for working through EBM processes in both data rich and data poor environments, as well as in different governance settings. A key message is that managers and communities can start simply and become more sophisticated as they move forward using an adaptive management process.
The Many Faces of EBM one-page synopsis

Science in Support of Ecosystem-Based Management for the California Current: This paper will offer a synthesis of the state of the natural and social science with respect to key EBM research themes for the California Current. The authors focus their assessment particularly on emerging scientific advances as it may inform EBM under each research theme, and at the same time identify important knowledge gaps or research needs.
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