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

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 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 how to retrofit existing laws or develop new statutes to enable comprehensive and integrated ocean management.