Shelf Life: exploring alternative marine futures

Coasts and oceans around Australia and across the world face mounting pressure from growing populations, increasing industrial and recreational use, and climate change.

CSIRO and its partners are developing practical tools to assist planners to navigate these challenges and sustainably manage marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

Shelf Life illustrates how such a tool can be applied, in this case through the North West Shelf Joint Environment Management Study (NSWJEMS).

The Western Australia Government and CSIRO collaborated on NWSJEMS to better understand potential management strategies for the competing and rapidly developing marine industries in the Pilbara region of WA. The same tools and techniques can be adapted for use in any marine ecosystem globally.

More information is available at http://www.csiro.au/science/nwsjems

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CSIRO
• marine
• ocean
• sustainability
• ecosystem
• ecology
• climate change
• environmental management