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
For several decades Canada has been interested and worked in developing a strategy for managing its marine and coastal areas. After Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) did not generate the expected results, today, Canada sees in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) a renewed opportunity to move towards integrated coastal and ocean management. However, implementing MSP involves […]
The environmental crisis of marine and coastal ecosystems has been pointed out for several decades. The decline of fishing, the rapid extinction of marine species, and plastic islands in open marine waters are evidence of the magnitude of the problem. Over the years, various alternatives have emerged to contribute to solving this severe crisis. Some […]
What do you think when you hear the word hurricane? If you are like most people, you rapidly imagine tragedy and destruction scenarios. Historically, hurricanes have been associated with adverse events which we want to avoid. Even in some cultures, hurricanes have been seen as a divine punishment and a signal that gods were annoyed […]
Much has been said about the sea’s economic importance, environmental value, and societal contribution. However, the sea is more than a bunch of biological or chemical measures and parameters; it is more than fishing routines, walks for tourists, and days in the sun; the sea is also arts. Throughout history, the sea has been equated […]
Coastal and marine ecosystems are closely linked by socioeconomic, biophysical, and geochemical processes. The relationship between land and marine ecosystems can be broadly grouped into socio-economic activities and biogeochemical processes. Biogeochemical processes are physical and biological processes that occur due to the interaction between terrestrial and marine ecosystems or require both ecosystems for them to […]
Historically, seas understanding has been dominated by natural science while the incursion of social science has been relegated. Just do a quick search in Google Scholar, and you can notice that publications in the field of marine social science are significantly fewer than in natural sciences. Today, there is a growing interest in understanding the […]
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 […]
