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EBM Tools

The Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Network is one of the premier sources of information about coastal and marine planning and management tools in the United States and internationally. Coastal and marine planning and management tools help practitioners incorporate scientific and socioeconomic information into decision making. The mission of the Network is to promote healthy coastal and marine ecosystems and communities through the use of tools that help incorporate ecosystem considerations into management.

The Network works to connect coastal and marine practitioners with appropriate tools through a wide variety of outreach and training activities. Learn more about services the Network provides.

The EBM Tools Network is currently focusing on tools for:

Climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning
Ecosystem-based coastal and marine spatial planning
Integrated land-sea planning to minimize the impacts of land use on coastal and marine environments.

Learn more about Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and EBM tools.

What People are Saying about the EBM Tools Network

“The Network helps me keep myself updated in technological advances, methodologies, and techniques for conservation work.”

---EBM Tools Network member

“You and your colleagues continue to astound me with all you great products and services. Webinars are a great thing for all of us in far flung, small communities.”

---EBM Tools Network webinar participant

“Thank you so much for putting these sessions together. There is no way that as an NGO in a developing country we can access this type of learning any other way.”

---EBM Tools Network webinar participant

“The EBM Tools Network is a good example of a ‘boundary organization’: it works at the boundary of science, policy-making and practice and facilitates the communication among them. Boundary organizations play significant role in providing adaptive solutions for complex problems, like most of the problems we face in conservation, biodiversity or other natural resource management or increasing the resilience of stressed social-ecological systems. The EBM Tools Network offers an impressive searchable tools database, case studies, news, and trainings.”

--- Citation in 2010 IUCN Commission on Education and Communication publication

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