Johns Hopkins University - Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management
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Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management at Coursera Overview
Duration | 25 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management at Coursera Course details
- Focusing on the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of the world, this course will introduce the concept and practice of ecosystem-based management. LMEs occupy areas of coastal ocean at least 200 000 km² or greater in size. These coastal waters produce 12.6 trillion USD in ecosystem goods and services annually and are vitally important for billions of people around the globe.
- Because LMEs are bounded by ocean features and are globally linked, management of human activities needs to occur in an integrated fashion across political boundaries and economic sectors (e.g. fishing, shipping, energy, tourism, and mining.) This represents a new type of management approached - shifting from single sector-based to multi-sector assessment and management within the spatial domain of the world's 66 Large Marine Ecosystems. There is global high-level support for this new approach and in this course, we will introduce the concepts and tools for assessing and managing LMEs.
- Together, leaders and experts in a global movement to recover and sustain the goods and services of LMEs will introduce you to the mechanisms used for assessment (Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis), planning and implementation (Strategic Action Programme). Based on recent activities in implementation and practice of the LME approach in 22 projects around the globe, we will showcase examples of effective management at this scale, and highlight the challenges and issues. By the end of the online course, we hope you will be able to actively use this knowledge to advance sustainable development of the world's oceans.
- The course was created with the support and input of: the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), UNESCO-IOC and IW:LEARN.
Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management at Coursera Curriculum
What is the Large Marine Ecosystem Approach?
Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management
Welcome to the course
What is marine ecosystem-based management?
What are LMEs?
Introducing the five module approach
A brief introduction to the tools (TDA & SAP)
Dr Sherman's perspective on week 1
Week 1 wrap-up
Meet the course team
How this course works
A global collaboration
What to expect in Week 1
Readings and Key Points
Readings and Key Points
Readings and Key Points
Week 1 additional resources
Ecosystem based management
Large Marine Ecosystems
Five Module approach
Week 1: The LME Approach
The Three Natural Science Modules
Welcome to Week 2
The productivity module
The fish and fisheries module
Pollution and ecosystem health
Plastic pollution
Dr Sherman's perspectives
Week 2 wrap up
What to expect in Week 2
The Plankton Chronicles Project videos
Readings and Key Points
Resources on fisheries
Readings and Key Points
Resources on pollution
Readings and Key Points
Resources and readings
Productivity
Fish and Fisheries
Pollution and Ecosystem Health
The Two Human Dimension Modules
Introducing Week 3
Socioeconomics module
Governance module
Dr Sherman's Perspectives
Week 3 wrap up
What to expect in week 3
Readings and Key Points
Readings and Key Points
Resources and readings
Additional readings on the Five Modules
Socioeconomics
Governance
Week 3: LME Human Dimension Modules
Week 3: Readings on the five modules
Tools and Actions: the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis and the Strategic Action Programme
Introduction to tools and actions
Transboundary diagnostic analsysis
Strategic Action Programme
Other tools
Dr Sherman's perspectives
Week 4 wrap up
What to expect in week 4
Reading and Key Points
Readings and Key Points
Resources and readings
TDA-SAP approach
Assessment and management tools
Transboundary Marine Ecosystem-Based Management
Introducing week 5
The Global Environment Facility
The LME network of partners
The GEF project process
Dr Sherman's perspectives
Week five wrap up
What to expect in week 5
Readings and Key Points
Readings and Key Points
Resources and readings
GEF and the LME Network of Partners
GEF project process
Week 5: Transboundary Marine EBM
Taking it Home: Examples of Best Practice
Introducing Week 6
Benguela Current LME
The Yellow Sea LME Project
The Yellow Sea LME - Implementing the SAP
The Yellow Sea LME - Governance
The Guinea Current LME Project
The Guinea Current LME Commission
Dr Sherman's Perspectives
Talking to Dr Sherman about LMEs making a difference
What to expect in week 6
Benguela Current LME - reading and resources
The Yellow Sea LME - reading and resources
The Guinea Current LME Project readings
The Canary Current LME
The Gulf of Mexico LME
Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems (CLME+) Project
The Bay of Bengal LME
The Humboldt Current LME
Resources and readings
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