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IUCN CEM Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Specialist Group
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IUCN CEM Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Specialist Group

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Group leadership

Dr Benjamin FITZPATRICK

Ben is a Marine Ecologist and Director of Oceanwise Australia. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and Leads the Coastal and Marine Specialist Group for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Commission on Ecosystem Management. Ben contributes 25 years experience as a specialist marine environmental scientist on International, federal and state government coastal and marine management programs.

Ben is a Marine Ecologist and Director of Oceanwise Australia. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and Leads the Coastal and Marine Specialist ...

Ms Kristina HEIDRICH
Co-Lead

IUCN CEM Coastal Marine Project Framework

Focus: Regional adaptive ecosystem based management for coastal catchments and territorial seas. Approach: CEM to work through regional members and with regional offices.

Phase 1.  Scope current situation and 5 to 25 year outlook for coastal ecosystem management.

  • Human uses, impacts, dependencies
  • Governance context
  • Ecosystem services
  • Use of visible services
  • Reliance and impacts on invisible services
  • Cost of replacement  or adaptation
  • Biodiversity roles
  • Redlist of threatened species
  • Redlist of threatened ecosystems
  • Critical and or sensitive habitats of economic species
  • Inventory of projects/programs addressing elements of ecosystem based management
  • Identify opportunities/gaps for engaging in new and/or continuing projects
  • Identify key hero institutions and individuals at scales from local to regional who might strengthen and be strengthened by membership of CEM and implementation of EBM projects.

Phase 2.  Develop, and work with the Secretariat, to raise funding and in-kind support for projects to implement and advance coastal and marine EBM. Engage with EMP, WCPA, CEESP, CEL and the IUCN Marine Program to achieve coherence and mutual coordination of marine and coastal actions.

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