Lessons Learned

Click on one of the following ten topics to access practical lessons drawn from across the 65 case studies of marine ecosystem-based management.

Getting Started	What triggered the projects and how did they take their initial steps forward?
Governance	How are MEBM initiatives organized at different spatial scales? What authority do they have?
Strategies	How did initiatives use research, planning, regulation, restoration, communication and capacity-building to advance their efforts?
Accomplishments	What have MEBM efforts achieved? What impact have they had?
Facilitating Factors	What has enabled projects to progress?
Challenges	What factors have been most difficult for places seeking to advance MEBM?
Enabling Collaboration	What facilitates collaborative relationships in MEBM projects?
Managing Conflict	How did MEBM initiatives manage conflict as they initiated, managed and sustained their efforts?
Managing Science	How did projects generate credible information, access traditional knowledge, and link science to managers, policy makers and the public?
Monitoring and Evaluating	How have projects evaluated progress and used their assessments to adaptively manage their efforts?