Resources built from management practice.
Big Ocean develops and shares guidance, tools, research, and stories grounded in the experience of people managing large ocean places. Some are produced by Big Ocean; many are co-produced with practitioners, researchers, and partner organizations.
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Current resources available in this build.
Origin stories
Use these to understand how different large ocean places came into being and how their management contexts differ.
PapahānaumokuākeaOrigin story. Open PDF →Great Barrier ReefOrigin story. Open PDF →Motu Motiro Hiva / Rapa NuiOrigin story. Open PDF →AscensionOrigin story. Open PDF →Research from and about the field.
Big Ocean is organizing peer-reviewed work on human dimensions, governance, management, scale, and durability, while distinguishing independent literature from work Big Ocean co-produced or helped catalyze.
Resources will be tagged where they can inform established LSMPAs, proposed or emerging places, Indigenous- and community-led governance, OECMs and other area-based approaches, multi-national or whole-domain initiatives, and high-seas implementation.
More is being brought forward.
Big Ocean 2.0 is organizing fifteen years of guidance, management tools, research, convening records, and practitioner knowledge so the field can use it more easily. This page will grow as those materials are prepared for publication.