Guided Search: Decision support - Marine spatial planning/Ocean zoning

The IAN symbol libraries contain over 1500 custom-made vector symbols (in 32 categories) designed specifically for enhancing science communication skills. The libraries are designed primarily for use with Adobe Illustrator (requires version 10 or better), however we also offer eps and svg versions for non-Illustrator users.

Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) is a GIS-based tool designed to assess, map, and quantify the perceived social values for ecosystems, such as aesthetics, biodiversity, and recreation.

Zonation is a framework for large-scale conservation planning. It identifies areas, or landscapes, that are important for retaining habitat quality and connectivity for multiple species, implicitly aiming at long term persistence of species.

The purpose of InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is to evaluate how human activities and climate change affect production and value of terrestrial and marine ecosystem services.

AmericaSpeaks provides citizens with a greater voice in planning and policy-making by integrating keypad polling and groupware computers with authentic public deliberation. AmericaSpeaks has managed public engagement programs across the country and around the world, including the redevelopment of Ground Zero after 9/11, the creation of Washington, D.C.'s budget priorities, and regional planning processes in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Perth, Australia.

SimCLIM is an “open-framework” modelling system that can be customised, maintained and applied by users for the purpose of examining impacts and adaptations to climate variability and change, including extreme climatic events.

The Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements (MCAs) provides information for local, national, and international organizations regarding a promising strategy to protect ocean and coastal biodiversity from degradation and depletion.