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Legal Standards for Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: California and Beyond

Monterey, CA (March 2008)

Overview
This two-day workshop, co-hosted by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program of Stanford Law School and COMPASS, challenged a select group of scientists and policy experts to articulate ecosystem-based management (EBM) in terms that can serve as standards suitable for inclusion in legislation. The group discussed how to develop concrete, measurable, enforceable indicators and standards for marine ecosystem health, and proposed some useful starting points that may be carried forward by a subsequent scientific working group. Other productive threads of discussion included how to retrofit existing laws or develop new statutes in order to enable and/or compel comprehensive and integrated coastal and ocean management. The geographic focus for this meeting was both the state of California and the federal level.

For questions regarding this workshop, please contact Karen McLeod.

Summaries from this workshop will be available soon. Links to the materials included in the background binder are below.

Agenda

Marine Ecology 101

A primer for non-lawyers on reading and understanding legal concepts and documents

Legal Language Embodying EBM Principles

Summaries of Key Statutes

Legal Authorities for Ecosystem-Based Management in U.S. Coastal and Ocean Areas

(Parenteau, P.A., D.C. Baur, and J.L. Schorr. 2008. In: Baur, D.D., Eichenberg, T., and M. Sutton (eds.), Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy, American Bar Association Publishing).

A New Vision for California Ocean Governance: Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Marine Zoning

(Deborah A. Sivas and Margaret R. Caldwell. 2008. Stanford Environmental Law Journal 29: 209-270)

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