Daniel Martinez Calderon uses his research to generate change in the way coastal and marine areas are managed.
“I want to advance understanding of how to enable and equip stakeholders and residents of local communities to be meaningfully involved in planning processes for sustainable use of their coastal and marine spaces.”
@TheOceanThinker
Many indigenous people have survived in a harmonious relationship with coastal-marine environments for hundreds of years. From the Māori of New Zealand, through the Ikoots people in the Mexican tropical Pacific, to the Miꞌkmaq in the Atlantic of Canada. Indigenous groups from different parts of the world have demonstrated to have successful coastal-marine management practices. […]
Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a novel tool for marine governance that has gained rapid and wide acceptance worldwide. However, MSP is still a tool under construction with deficiencies and limitations. One of the main critiques of MSP is the tokenistic nature of stakeholder engagement. Fostering a meaningful engagement of stakeholders requires an approach that […]
The international community has embraced marine spatial planning (MSP) as a way to preserve the ecological integrity of marine environments while obtaining economic, cultural, and social benefits. MSP has quickly become the dominant marine management policy worldwide in the last 10 years. However, while MSP has a transformative capacity, the worldwide experience reveals large gaps […]
Imagine that tomorrow there is not a single fish to catch in the oceans, that your sunsets on the boardwalk by the sea are over or that you can no longer take your well-deserved vacation on the lovely beaches of the Caribbean Sea. Okay, maybe I am being a little dramatic. However, believe it or […]
