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Here it is! Three years in the making.

Integrated Land-Sea Conservation Planning:
The Missing Links

Jorge G. A´ lvarez-Romero,  Robert L. Pressey,   Natalie C. Ban,  Ken Vance-Borland,  ChuckWiller,
Carissa Joy Klein, and  Steven D. Gaines

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Integrated Land-Sea Conservation Planning

 

Land-Sea Conservation

The Next Frontier

See a slide show of Land-Sea planning ideas.

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Joint Ocean Commission Initiative

One Coast, One Future

Securing the Health of West Coast
Ecosystems and Economies

In 2007 the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative received a letter from nineteen local and
state elected officials from California, Oregon, and Washington requesting guidance
on high priority actions that they, in their capacity as local and state officials, can take
to improve the health of coastal and ocean ecosystems and incorporate sound science into
decision making. The recommendations contained in this report focus on actions that

local leaders can take to implement an integrated approach and ways
that state legislatures can support their efforts.

 

Download the full Joint Ocean Commission Initiative Report Here

 

An Ecological Economics Approach to Understanding Oregon’s

Coastal Economy and Environment

Paula Swedeen, Ph.D. and Dave Batker, Earth Economics

Hans Radtke, Ph.D., The Research Group

Roul Boumans, Ph.D., Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

Chuck Willer, The Coast Range Association

There have been no studies to date that address the broad economic relationship between

Oregon’s estuary and marine ecosystems and the economic health of Oregon’s coastal communities.

This paper reports on the first phase of an economic analysis linking marine and marine influenced

ecological conditions to the general coastal economy by exploring those ecosystem services that

connect economy and ecology. We present the general concept of ecosystem services and

discuss qualitatively their contribution to the coastal economy of Oregon. Specifically, we provide

the background ecological economics framework in which the role of ecosystem services is assessed

in its support of the coastal economy. This includes describing the relationship between the

long-term sustainable management of coastal resources (natural capital) and the resilience

of the Oregon coastal economy.

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One of the most popular downloads from this website

2007 Catalog of Oregon Seabird Colonies

is now available on-line here:

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