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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management by United Nations Environment Programme

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About the Course

Focusing on the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of the world, this course will introduce the concept and practice of ecosystem-based management. LMEs occupy areas of coastal ocean at least 200 000 km² or greater in size. These coastal waters produce 12.6 trillion USD in ecosystem goods and services annually and are vitally important for billions of people around the globe. Because LMEs are bounded by ocean features and are globally linked, management of human activities needs to occur in an integrated fashion across political boundaries and economic sectors (e.g. fishing, shipping, energy, tourism, and mining). This represents a new type of management, approached by shifting from single-sector based to multi-sector assessment and management, within the spatial domain of the world's 66 Large Marine Ecosystems. There is global high-level support for this new approach and in this course, we will introduce the concepts and tools for assessing and managing LMEs. Together, leaders and experts in a global movement to recover and sustain the goods and services of LMEs will introduce you to the mechanisms used for assessment (Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis), planning and implementation (Strategic Action Programme). Based on recent activities in implementation and practice of the LME approach projects around the globe, we will showcase examples of effective management at this scale, and highlight the challenges and issues. By the end of the online course, we hope you will be able to actively use this knowledge to advance sustainable development of the world’s oceans. The course was created with the support and input of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), UNESCO-IOC and IW:LEARN....

Top reviews

MR

Jul 27, 2020

This is really an excellent course particularly those who are interested in marine ecosystem-based management. I will surely recommend it to my friends and colleagues.

DK

Apr 18, 2020

The course is great for beginners. The assignments are not too daunting, but rigorous enoughSome more addition in global perspectives section would be great.

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By Alora M

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Jul 18, 2019

The volume is quite low on most of the videos.

By Ngati F

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May 12, 2020

The research papers were very informative

By Karola G

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Mar 9, 2022

Very interesting course, good lectures!

By Jesna J

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Jul 3, 2020

I am finding this course really helpful

By Mihaela N

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Apr 13, 2019

I enjoyed every lesson in this course!

By Maribel E

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May 4, 2020

Is a great course! Highly recommended

By Lydia J

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Apr 13, 2021

Great course! Really recommend

By Masoud J A

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Jun 1, 2019

how can I get my certificate ?

By emmanuel m

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Sep 18, 2021

The course is insightful!!!!

By EIRINI S

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Feb 13, 2021

Really interesting course!!

By Zhe R

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Nov 26, 2022

Good course worth it.

By Winston A W

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Dec 28, 2020

Excellent, thank you.

By 徐鈞威

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Oct 29, 2024

It is a good lesson.

By WINSTON R

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Feb 13, 2019

The best so far!

By AYESHA N

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Oct 21, 2019

good good good

By Asfandyar K

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Mar 14, 2023

comprehensive

By ABU H M Y

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Oct 22, 2020

Outstanding

By Hernán O

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Dec 27, 2018

Excelent!

By OR, K K M

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Jun 11, 2023

Good!

By Nqobile

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Dec 3, 2019

This was my first engagement with an online course and I found it super easy to engage with the course material as instructions were clear. I found this particular course to be very insightful with regards to the various Large Marine Ecosystems existing across the world and I'm excited to see the evolution in approaches on managing resources and the likes, particularly the use of Ecosystem-based management within the spatial domain of LMEs.

By Lauren F

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Mar 12, 2019

I really enjoyed going more into depth on large marine ecosystems, after seeing the term mentioned in a paper I read for my Honours thesis. I feel that the holistic approach to managing shared marine resources is a winning strategy, and I'm glad that I now have foundational knowledge of a topic which is at the cutting edge of marine resource management.

By Marisa M

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Oct 22, 2019

This was my first Coursera course, really enjoyed and think it was well organizes, with a lot of information and interaction tools. Really appreciate how you could have a "connection" with the lectures, it really felt that i was in a real class. Eager to complete more

By Steve J

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Jul 9, 2021

The marking criteria only really allowed for pass or fail, particularly the last assignment. It was almost impossible to award a mark between 80-100%. The mark scheme should be reviewed.

By Amal F

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Jun 19, 2020

this was a new experience for me and a good on. It was informative and I look forward to implement it in my career . I thank all my instructors for creating this course.