Books and Reports

This section includes salient books and gray literature reports on EBM and MSP. Additionally, these resources cover aspects of marine regional planning from a conservation perspective, and show how this perspective can be coupled with other important components of marine planning. Contact us with suggestions for additional books and reports.

• Beck, MW, Z Ferdaña, J Kachmar, KK Morrison, PH Taylor and others. 2009. Best Practices for Marine Spatial Planning. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA.
• Holland DS, JN Sanchirico, RJ Johnston and D Joglekar. 2010. Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management: Applications to Marine and Coastal Environments. RFF Press, 236 pp.
• Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. 2009. Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. White House Council on Environmental Quality.
• McLeod K and H Leslie (Eds.). 2009. Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans. Island Press, 392 pp.
• McLeod, KL, J Lubchenco, SR Palumbi and AA Rosenberg. 2005. Scientific Consensus Statement on Marine Ecosystem-Based Management. Signed by 217 academic scientists and policy experts with relevant expertise and published by the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea.
• Mengerink K, A Schempp and J Austin. 2009. Ocean and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management: Implementation Handbook. Environmental Law Institute, 158 pp.
• The Nature Conservancy. 2006. Marine Ecosystem Based Management: Learning from Case Studies to Advance Decision Support.