SEMINAR: MAF SEMINAR

[Maria Estevanez <mestevanez@rsmas.miami.edu>]

MAF SEMINAR

Friday, October 29, 2010
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Dean's Seminar Room

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Alan Leonardi
Deputy Director
AOML, NOAA

Topic: Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning

Abstract:

Americaâs oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes are vital to our economy, 
security, and culture and support a growing number of significant and 
often-competing uses and activities. These uses are expanding at a rate 
that challenges our ability to plan for and manage them under the 
current sector-by-sector approachâan approach that pays little regard to 
scale, scope, or time. What has been absent and greatly needed is a more 
integrated ecosystem-based approach to planningâone that is flexible, 
comprehensive, proactive, and regionalâthat brings together all the 
relevant agencies and stakeholders at the onset to ensure a more 
sustainable future. The recently signed Presidential executive order 
establishing a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our 
Coasts, and the Great Lakes aims to solve this long standing challenge 
through the development of a framework for effective Coastal and Marine 
Spatial Planning (CMSP). Dr. Alan Leonardi, Deputy Director of NOAA's 
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, will discuss 
NOAA's role in Coastal and Marine Spacial Planning and how CMSP relates 
to NOAAâs priorities as an operational marine science and management agency.

--
Maria Luisa M Estevanez
Senior Lecturer and Academic Advisor
Division of Marine Affairs and Policy
University of Miami-RSMAS
(305) 421-4012


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