2021
Ehler, Charles N., guest editor, 2021. Introduction. Special Issue on Marine Spatial Planning. Marine Policy. Volume 132C. October. (10 manuscripts in in special issue).
Ehler, Charles N., 2021. Two decades of progress in marine spatial planning. Marine Policy. Volume 132C. October.
Santos, C.F., C. Ehler, T. Agardy, F. Andrade, M.K. Orbach, and L.B. Crowder, 2020, Major challenges in developing marine spatial planning. Marine Policy Volume 132C. October.
2020
"The UNESCO guide to marine spatial planning is the world's best source on how to do MSP."
– Elliott Norse, Founder and President (retired), Marine Conservation Institute, USA
"We have adopted [the definition of marine spatial planning] from UNESCO that has particular appeal for us by virtue of its intuitive simplicity."
– Deerin Babb-Brott, Assistant Secretary of Oceans and Coastal Zone Management, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Santos, Catrina Frazao, Tundi Agardy, Francisco Andrade, Helena Calado, Larry B. Crowder, Charles N. Ehler, Sara García-Morales, Elena Gissi, Benjamin S. Halpern, Michael K. Orbach, Hans-Otto Pörtner, and Rui Rosa. Integrated climate change in ocean planning. Nature Sustainability. 4 May 2020.
2019
"The definitive manual [for marine spatial planning] by Ehler and Douvere..."
– Nathan J. Bennett, Navigating a just and inclusive path toward sustainable oceans, Marine Policy, 2019
Santos, C.F., C. Ehler, T. Agardy, F. Andrade, M.K. Orbach, and L.B. Crowder, 2018, Chapter 30 on Marine Spatial Planning in: (C. Sheppard, ed.) World Seas: an Environmental Evaluation, Vol. III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts, second edition. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. pp. 571-592.
2018
"One of the best known and applied documents on MSP is the IOC-UNESCO guide entitled Marine spatial planning: a step-by-step approach toward ecosystem-based management (Ehler & Douvere, 2009). Although MSP is a complex process, and full of intricacies, the IOC-UNESCO guide explains it in a very thorough, clear, and objective way."
– Catarina F. Santos, et al., Marine Spatial Planning Chapter in World Seas, 2018
Santos, C.F., C. Ehler, T. Agardy, F. Andrade, M.K. Orbach, and L.B. Crowder, 2018, Chapter 30 on Marine Spatial Planning in: (C. Sheppard, ed.) World Seas: an Environmental Evaluation, Vol. III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts, second edition. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. pp. 571-592.
Ehler, Charles N., Zaucha, Jacek, and Gee, Kira, 2018. Chapter 1: Marine Spatial Planning at the Interface of Practice and Research. In Maritime Spatial Planning: past, present, future. (Jacek Zaucha and Kira Gee, eds.). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ehler, Charles N., 2018. Chapter 22 on my career in: Marine Conservation: People, Ideas, and Action. (Bob Earll, ed.). Exeter, UK: Pelagic Publishing. pp. 237-249.
Ehler, Charles N., 2018. Chapter 1, Marine spatial planning, in: Ocean Energy and Marine Spatial Planning. (Yates, K., Bradshaw, C., eds). Oxford, UK: Routledge. pp. 6-17.
Ehler, Charles N., ed., 2018. Final Report of the 2nd International Conference on Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning. IOC-UNESCO and European Commission-DGMare, 15-17 March 2017, Paris, France. IOC Workshop Reports Series No. 279. 54 p.
2017
"Literally everywhere I go in the world [to talk about marine planning], people know about the UNESCO step-by-step guide to marine spatial planning. In 2016, the UNESCO guide hits its 10-year anniversary and I think it’s safe to say that no other guide or publication for marine spatial planning has had the reach, influence or inspiration as this one has over the past decade. I have used this guide for our [TNC] on-the-ground work in Canada, Seychelles, and Indonesia, and used it to support marine spatial planning discussions in Mexico, Caribbean nations, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Mauritius. As a guidance document, it is an invaluable resource [for governments, consultants, NGOs and scientists] to grasp the basic concepts and then employ the detailed approach necessary for MSP and launch a process."
– Joanna Smith, Marine Spatial Planning Science Manager, The Nature Conservancy-Canada, 2017
"Useful to any team contemplating a MSP initiative will be Ehler and Douvere's step-by-step guide to the MSP process and Ehler's manual on evaluating marine spatial plans."
– Katona, J. et al., Navigating the seascape of ocean management, Open Channels, 2017
IOC-UNESCO and European Commission-DG Mare host Second International Conference on Marine Spatial Planning, Paris, France, 8-15-17 March 2017. IOC and DG Mare sign Joint Roadmap to accelerate Maritime/Marine Spatial Planning worldwide.
Pinarbasi, Kemal, Ibon Galparsoro, Angel Borja, Vanessa Stelzenmuller, Charles N. Ehler, and Antje Simpel. Decision support tools in marine spatial planning: present applications, gaps, and future perspectives. Marine Policy, 83: 83-91.
Ehler, Charles N., 2017. Marine spatial planning ten years later: a conversation with Charles Ehler. Marine Ecosystems and Management Newsletter. Posted 1 May 2017
2016
Santos, Catarina Frazao, Tundi Agardy, Francisco Andrade, Manual Barange, Larry B. Crowder, Charles N. Ehler, Michael K. Orbach, and Rui Rosa, 2016. Ocean planning in a changing climate. Nature Geoscience. Vol. 9. October. p. 730. On-line version here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2016. Establish financing for all of the essential elements of marine management. Marine Ecosystems and Assessment Newletter. Posted 11 July 2016.
Ehler, Charles N., 2016. "You're either at the table or you're on the table. The importance of participating in MSP processes". Marine Ecosystems and Assessment Newsletter. Posted 4 April 2016.
2015
"The core team of the [MSP Med-Greece] project considered that the UNESCO publication (Ehler and Douvere 2009) offers very useful guidance, to both more and less advanced countries in the field, for the preparation and implementation of their respective policies."
– Paving the Road to Marine Spatial Planning in the Mediterranean, 2015.
"The Panel has used the UNESCO, Marine Spatial Planning — A Step-by-Step Approach as the guide for good practice in MSP..."
– Independent Review Panel, Haurki Gulf MArine Spatial Plan (New Zealand), 2015
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2015. Marine spatial planning: delivering ecosystem-based management. In: The Protected Areas Governance and Management Book (Worboys, G.L, M. Lockwood, and A. Kothari, eds.) IUCN: Gland, Switzerland.
2014
Ehler, Charles, 2014. A Guide to Evaluating Marine Spatial Plans. UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: Paris, France. IOC Manuals and Guides No. 70., ICAM Dossier 8. 96 p. Translated and published in Chinese by China Ocean Press in 2018.
Ehler, Charles, 2014. A Global Review of Marine Spatial Planning: 2014 Update. An internal report prepared for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) United Kingdom. July. 103 p. (translated into Russian)
Ehler, Charles N., 2014. Viewpoint from a practitioner: Back to the future: integrating past, present, and future. Chapter 10, "Incorporating Historical Perspectives in Systematic Marine Conservation Planning" in: Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation: Applying the Past to Manage for the Future (eds., Kittinger, McClenachan, Gedan, & Blight). University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, USA.
2013
Ehler, Charles N., 2013. Marine spatial planning—what have we learned from international experience. In: Nguyen Chu Hoi, et al. National Workshop Proceedings on Application of Viet Nam’s Marine and Coastal Spatial Planning—an ecosystem-based management approach. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 89 p.
Ehler, Charles N., 2013. An Introduction to Marine Spatial Planning. Coral Triangle Initiative Support Program. South Jakarta, Indonesia. 52 p. Downloadable here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2013. Pan-Arctic Marine Spatial Planning: an idea whose time has come. Chapter 9 in: Arctic Marine Governance: opportunities for trans-Atlantic Cooperation (Elizabeth Tedson et al, eds). Springer. pp. 199-213.
Ehler, Charles N., 2013. A challenge to marine spatial planning—more than half the area of the world’s coastal countries is already underwater! OpenChannels: Forum for Ocean Planning and Management website, 14 March 2013
Ehler, Charles N., 2013. The status and future of Marine Spatial Planning. Open Channels: Forum for Ocean Planning and Management website. January, and re-printed in Marine Ecosystems & Management Newsletter, Vol. 6, no. 4, February-March 2013, pp. 4-5
2012
"Ehler and Douvere (2009) provide the most comprehensive approach [to marine spatial planning]".
– Collie, J.S., et al. Marine spatial planning in practice. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2012 (MSP review article)
Ehler, Charles N., 2012. A Global Review of Marine Spatial Planning. Internal report prepared for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Mediterranean. September. 123 p.
Ehler, Charles N., 2012. 13 Myths of Marine Spatial Planning. Marine Ecosystems and Management Newsletter. Vol. 5, no. 5. April-May. pp. 5-7.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2012. Marine spatial planning: identifying the critical elements for success. In: Ciccotelli, Elia, and Benigno Calo, eds. Spatial Planning: Strategies, Developments and Management. Nova Sciences Publishers: Hauppauge, NY, USA. pp. 111-133. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2012. The top 15 publications on marine spatial planning. Open Channels: Forum for Ocean Planning and Management website.
2011
Ehler, Charles N., 2011. Marine spatial planning: an idea whose time has come. In: Annual Report of the Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems. International Energy Agency. Paris, France. pp. 96-100. Reprinted in: Huckerby, J., and A. Brito e Melo, eds., 2013. Global Status and Critical Developments in Ocean Energy. Ocean Energy Systems Implementing Agreement. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2011. Marine spatial planning in the Arctic. Marine Ecosystems and Management. Vol. 4, no. 5. April-May. pp. 7-8.
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2011. Navigating the Future of Marine World Heritage. Results from the First World Heritage Marine Site Managers Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1-3 December 2010. World Heritage Papers 28. World Heritage Centre, UNESCO: Paris, France. 82 p. See here.
Gold, B.D, M. Pastoors, D. Babb-Brott, C. Ehler, M. King, F. Maes, K. Mengerink, M. Müller, T.Pitta e Cunha, M. Ruckelhaus, P. Sandifer, K. Veum, 2011. Integrated Marine Policies and Tools. CALAMAR (Cooperation Across the Atlantic for Marine Governance Integration) Expert Paper. Ecologic Institute: Berlin and Washington. 24 p. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2011. Marine Spatial Planning in the Arctic: a first step toward ecosystem-based management. A report of the Aspen Institute’s Dialogue and Commission on Arctic Climate Change. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute. January pp. 40-82. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2011. Balancing the change implied by adpative management with the certainty promised by marine spatial planning. Marine Ecosystems and Management. Vol. 4, no. 3. December 2010-January 2011. pp. 3-4.
2010
"The guidebook [that Ehler and Douvere] co-authored in 2009, Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach toward Ecosystem-based Management, remains the definitive manual on MSP implementation."
– John Davis, Editor, MEAM Newsletter, August-September 2010
"UNESCO has been at the forefront of developing an integrated process for defining MSP, putting it in context, communicating best practices and developing key ingredients in consultation with acknowledged experts. In the discussions undertaken with key individuals involved in MSP it is clear that the UNESCO work is widely respected and viewed as a key contribution"...UNESCO, under the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Marine Spatial Planning Initiative, has developed these principles into a comprehensive step-by-step guide to MSP which offers clear guidance on how to approach MSP..."
– Government of Sweden, Task Force on MSP, 2010
"As the marine planning system has developed, the Government has been keen to learn lessons from marine planning implementation across the world....One particularly useful source is UNESCO's"Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach."
– UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Consulation on a Marine Planning System for England, 2010
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2010. An International perspective on marine spatial planning initiatives. Environments. Vol. 37(3), pp. 9-20. See here.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2010. The importance of monitoring and evaluation in adaptive maritime spatial planning. Journal of Coastal Conservation: Planning and Management. Special issue on Maritime Spatial Planning. Vol 15, No. 2. pp. 305-311. See here.
Ehler, Charles N. Does marine spatial planning have to be ecosystem-based?, 2010. Marine Ecosystems and Management. Vol. 3, no. 4. February-March. p. 2.
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2010. 2009 Baltic Sea Scorecard: Measuring Progress toward Integrated Sea Use Management in the Baltic Sea. WWF Baltic Sea Programme: Solna, Sweden. 26 p. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., 2010. Summary of the Conference. Future Use of the Polish Maritime Areas for Economic and Ecological Purposes. Instytut Morski w Gdansku: Gdansk, Poland. pp. 17-21. (English and Polish)
2009
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2009. Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach toward Ecosystem-based Management. IOC Manual & Guides No. 53, IOCAM Dossier No. 6. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO: Paris, France. 99 p. (translated into Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, and most recently, French in 2020)
Wiggin, Jack; Uiterwyk, Kristin; Bliven, Steve; Hellin, Dan; Duff, John; Terkla, David; Bowen, Robert E.; Rosenberg, Andrew A.; Harrington, Jennie; Swasey, Jill H.; Iudicello, Suzanne; O’Boyle, Robert; Hoagland, Porter; Kite-Powell, Hauke L.; Jin, Di; Courtney, Fara; Delaney, Rich; Hughes, Pat; Dalton, Tracey Morin; Orenstein, Suzanne Goulet; Ehler, Charles N.; Douvere, Fanny; Kaufman, Les; McCaffrey, Charles T. Jr.; Napoli, Nicholas; Moura, Stephanie; and Starbuck, Kim, 2009. Planning Framework Options for The Massachusetts Ocean Plan. Urban Harbors Institute Publications. Paper 4. See here.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2009. Ecosystem-based marine spatial management: a new paradigm for the management of coastal and marine places. Ocean Yearbook 23. April. pp. 1-7.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2009. New perspectives on sea use management: initial findings from European experience with marine spatial planning, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 90. January. pp. 77-88. See here.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2009. Marine spatial planning: a promising new paradigm for applying an integrated, ecosystem approach to ocean management. Proceedings of the ICES 2008 Annual Science Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia. ICES. Paper E-24 in Theme Session E: Marine Spatial Planning.
2008
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, issue eds., 2008. Special Issue on Ecosystem-based, Marine Spatial Management. Marine Policy. 32 (August).
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2008. Introduction. Special Issue on Ecosystem-based, Marine Spatial Management (Douvere & Ehler, eds). Marine Policy. 32: 759-761.
Ehler, Charles N. Conclusions: benefits, lesssons learned, and future challenges of marine spatial planning. 2008. Special Issue on Ecosystem-based, Marine Spatial Management (Douvere & Ehler, eds.). Marine Policy. 32: 840-843. See here.
2007
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore "for their efforts to build up ad disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Ehler, Charles N., and Fanny Douvere, 2007. Visions for a Sea Change. Technical Report of the International Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning, 8-10 November 2006. ICAM Dossier Series, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: UNESCO: Paris, France. IOC Manual & Guides No. 46, ICAM Dossier 3. 84 p.
Douvere, Fanny, and Charles N. Ehler, 2007. A summary of the International Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning, 8-10 November 2006. Marine Policy. Vol. 31. July. pp. 582-583.
Young, Oran, Gail Osherenko, Julia Ekstrom, Larry B. Crowder, John Ogden, James A. Wilson, Jon C. Day, Fanny Douvere, Charles N. Ehler, Karen McLeod, and Robbin Peach, 2007. Solving the crisis in ocean governance: place-based management of ocean ecosystems. Environment. Vol. 49, no. 4. May 2007. pp. 20-32. See here.
2006
IOC-UNESCO hosts First International Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning, Paris, France, 8-10 November 2006
"The starting point for the spread of MSP internationally..... The UNESCO/IOC workshop was important for connecting scientists to practitioners and planners to marine conservationists who operated at the local and regional scales and then became involved in moving MSP forward internationally. More importantly this focussed activity at the international level helped to coordinate the parallel, disparate processes that were occurring at the time. This initiative acted as a catalyst to bring together the different strings of marine planning and bundle them together to create a globally coherent MSP process with particular constituent elements."
– Andrew Merrie and Per Olssen, Marine Policy, 2014
Crowder, L.B., G. Osherenko, O.R. Young, S. Airame, E.A. Norse, N. Baron, J. Day, F. Douvere, C. Ehler, B. Halpern, S.J. Langdon, K.L. McLeod, J.C. Ogden, R. Peach, A.A. Rosenberg, and J.A. Wilson, 2006. Resolving mismatches in U.S. ocean governance. Science. Vol. 313, 4 August, pp. 617-618. See here.
Belfiore, Stefano, Julian Barbiere, Robert Bowan, Biliana Cicin-Sain, Charles Ehler, Camille Mageau, Dan McDougall, and Robert Siron, 2006. A Handbook for Measuring the Progress and Outcomes of Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management. IOC Manuals and Guides No. 46; ICAM Dossier 2. Paris: UNESCO. 217 p. See here.
Ehler, Charles N., and Chua, Thia-Eng. 2006. The ecosystem approach to integrated ocean and coastal management. Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands Newsletter. No. 9, April. p. 6-10. See here.
2005
Ehler, Charles N. (editor). 2005. Integrated MPA management with coastal and ocean governance: principles and practices. Special issue of Ocean and Coastal Management Journal. Vol. 48.
Ehler, Charles N., Nguyen Chu Hoi, and Nguyen Le Hoa. 2005. Final Evaluation: Hon Mun Marine Protected Area Project, Khnah Hoa Province, Vietnam. IUCN-Vietnam and The World Bank. 36 p.
Watson, Lani, Charles N. Ehler, Gonzolo Cid, John Parks, Robert Pomeroy, Simon Cripps, and Miguel Jorge, 2005. Testing indicators developed to evaluate the effectiveness of marine protected areas. Proceedings of the Science and Management of Protected Areas Association (SAMPAA) conference. Canada
2004
Cicin-Sain, Biliana, Charles N. Ehler, & Stefano Belfiore (eds.). 2004. Incorporating Marine Protected Areas into Coastal and Ocean Management: Principles and Guidelines. International Union for the Conservation of Nature: Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK. viii + 38 pp.
Ehler, Charles N., & Arthur Paterson. 2004. Building a global MPA network, one park at a time. World Conservation, The IUCN Bulletin, No. 1. pp. 16-17.
Ehler, Charles N., & Simon Cripps. 2004. Foreword. How Is Your MPA Doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (Robert S. Pomeroy et al). IUCN: Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK.
Ehler, Charles N. (Interview). 2004. Measuring MPA effectiveness: new guide provides framework and cases. MPA News, Vol. 5, No. 10. p. 6.
Ehler, Charles N. 2004. A perspective on the biodiversity conference. MPA News, Vol. 5, No. 9, April. p. 4.
2003
Ehler, Charles N., 2003. Cross-cutting themes of the World Parks Congress: marine; and the workshops: what did we learn: the marine gap? World Conservation, The IUCN Bulletin, No. 2. pp. 22-27.
Ehler, Charles N., 2003 Indicators to measure governance performance in integrated coastal management. Ocean and Coastal Management Journal, Vol.46, Issues 3-4, pp. 335-345.
Ehler, Charles N., 2003. Measuring the success of integrated coastal management programs. In: Proceedings of the Third Joint Meeting, Coastal Environmental Science and Technology Panel of the US-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR). Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
Ehler, Charles N. (interview). 2002/03. Managing the oceans. Marine Scientist. No. 2, Winter, p. 20.
Cicin-Sain, Biliana, & Charles N. Ehler. 2003. Sustainable tourism and coastal management in the Adriatic. The Adriatic Sea: A Sea At-Risk, A Unity of Purpose (Neal Ascherson & Andrew Marshall, eds.). Religion, Science and the Environment: Athens, Greece. pp. 57-64.
2001
Cicin-Sain, Biliana, and Charles N. Ehler, eds. 2002. Proceedings of Workshop on Improving Regional Ocean Governance in the United States. University of Delaware: Newark, DE. December. 212 p.
2000
Ehler, Charles N., & Edgardo Gomez. 2000. Foreword. Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management (Bunce, Leah, et al). Australian Institute of Marine Science: Townsville, Australia.
Ehler, Charles N. 2000. Opening remarks. In Proceedings of the Second Joint Meeting (Dooso Jang, ed.). Coastal Environmental Science and Technology Panel of the US-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Silver Spring, MD. February. pp. 29-32.
1999
Ehler, Charles N. 1999. Introduction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Marine Disasters: Forecast and Prediction (Yu Zhouwen, ed.). China Ocean Press: Beijing, China. pp. 3-4.
1998
Ehler, Charles N. 1998. Foreword, Introductions to Chapters 4, Degradation and Conflict, and Chapter 7, Industrial Impact. In The Black Sea in Crisis (Sarah Hobson and Laurence D. Mee, eds.). World Scientific Publishing Co: Singapore. pp. ix-xi, 93-95, and 185-186.
Ehler, Charles N. 1998. The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment ;from Land-based Activities. Ocean & Coastal Policy Network News. Vol. 1, no. 1. September . p. 9.
Ehler, Charles N. (lead author). 1998. Perspectives on marine environmental quality today. Year of the Ocean Report. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration: Washington, DC.
Ehler, Charles N. 1998. Toward integrated coastal management: recent US experience. In The Conservation of the North Atlantic Shores: Views of the Experts. Proceedings on an Internationa Conference at the Institut Oceanographique, Paris, and the Cote d’Opale, France. IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy. pp. 23-28. (in French and English)
Ehler, Charles N. 1998. Managing for sustainability in the coastal environment (Foreword) and Integrated coastal management in the USA — lessons for the future (Chapter). Marine Environmental Management: Review of Events in 1997 and Future Trends. (Bob Earll, ed.) Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. pp. 1-2 and 39-44.
Ehler, Charles N.,1998. A new international partnership: the US-Japan Panel on Coastal Environmental Science and Technology. Port and Harbour Journal (in Japanese).
1997
Ehler, Charles N., et al. 1997. Guidelines to assist policy makers and managers of coastal areas in the integration of coastal management programs and national climate action plans. Ocean and Coastal Management. Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 7-27.
Cicin-Sain, Biliana, Charles N. Ehler, Robert Knecht, Robin South, and Weiher, 1997. Guidelines for Integrating Coastal Management Programs into National Climate Action Plans. Developed at the International Workshop for Climate Change Through Integrted Coastal Management. 24-28 February 1997. Taipai, Taiwan. 18 p.
Ehler, Charles N. 1997. General introduction to the book and Introduction to Chapter 5, Managing in an Era of Uncertainty. In: Revelation and the Environment, AD 95-1995, the Patmos Symposium (Sarah Hobson and Jane Lubchenco, eds.). World Scientific Publishing Co: Singapore. pp. vii-viii and 101-102.
Ehler, Charles N., Hiroaki Ozaza, and Sidney Thurston. 1997. The Coastal Environmental Science and Technology Panel: US-Japan efforts to restore the health of our coasts. Marine Technology Society Journal. Vol. 31., no. 2. Summer. pp. 60-63.
1996
Ehler, Charles N., 1996. South Florida: a laboratory for ecosystem restoration and integrated coastal management. Marine Technology Society Journal. Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall. pp. 13-20.
L. Bijlsma, C.N. Ehler, R.J.T. Klein, S.M. Kulshrestha, R.F. McLean, N. Mimura, R.J. Nicholls, L.A. Nurse, H. Pérez Nieto, E.Z. Stakhiv, R.K. Turner, and R.A. Warrick, 1995. Coastal Zones and Small Islands. In: Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Edited by Robert T. Watson, Marufu C. Zinyowera, and Richard H. Moss. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,UK, 289-324.
1995
Ehler, Charles N. and Blair T. Bower. 1995. Toward a common framework for integrated coastal zone management. In: Proceedings of Coastal Zone ‘95, Spotlight on Solutions.
Ehler, Charles N. 1995. Coastal ocean space management: challenges for the next decade. In: Coastal Ocean Space Utilization III (Norberto Della Croce et al., eds.). Chapman and Hall: London, UK. pp. 175-187.
Ehler, Charles N. 1995. The importance of environmental information in planning and analysis: application to Osaka Bay. In: Proceedings of the Osaka-Wan Symposium (in English and Japanese), Japan Ministry of Transport: Tokyo. pp. 15-18.
1994
Bijlsma, Luitzen, Charles N. Ehler, and Nobuo Mimura, 1994. Preparing to Meet the Coastal Challenges of the 21st Century. Conference Report. World Coast Conference 1993. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management/RIKZ, Coastal Zone Management Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Ehler, Charles N. 1994. Toward integrated coastal zone management—recent US experience. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Oceanography, Toward Sustainable Use of Oceans and Coastal Zones. November 14-19, Lisbon, Portugal.
Blair T. Bower, Charles N. Ehler, & Daniel J. Basta. 1994. A Framework for Planning for Integrated Coastal Zone Management. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Silver Spring, MD. 65 p. (translated into Chinese in 1998 and reprinted by the State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China, and in Vietnamese in 2004, by the Ministry of Fisheries, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Ehler, Charles N., and Daniel J. Basta. 1994. Bridging the gaps among science, management, and public policy. Coastal Zone ‘94 Proceedings. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1993
Ehler, Charles N., and Daniel J. Basta. 1993. Integrated management of coastal areas and marine sanctuaries: a new paradigm. Oceanus. Vol. 36, no. 3. Fall. pp. 6-13.
Ehler, Charles N. (ed.), 1993. Preparatory Workshop on Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Responses to Climate Change. Proceedings of the IPCC/WCC’93 Western Hemisphere workshop, New Orleans, 13-16 July 1993, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD.
Ehler, Charles N., 1993. Improving the information base for ocean space use planning and management. In: International Perspectives on Coastal Ocean Space (Phyllis M. Grifman and James A. Fawcett, eds.). University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA. pp. 3-10.
Ehler, Charles N., 1993. Monitoring. In: Global Marine Biological Diversity (Elliott A. Norse, ed.). Island Press: Washington, DC. pp. 197-198.
1992
Ehler, Charles N., et al., 1992. From boats to bytes—new applications of geographic information to the management of US coastal and marine resources. Commission on Marine Geography of the International Geographical Congress, August 6-9. Washington, DC. 15 p.
1991
Exxon settles damage assessment claims of US government and state of Alaska for Prince William Sound oil spill on 9 October 1991 for $900 million.
Ehler, Charles N., 1991. Summary of remarks on use conflicts and threats: pollution. In: National Forum on Ocean Conservation. The Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC. pp. 67-68.
Thomas P. O’Connor, and Charles N. Ehler, 1991. Results from the NOAA National Status and Trends Program on distribution and effects of chemical contamination in the coastal and estuarine United States. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 17: 1991. pp. 33-49
1990
Ehler, Charles N., 1990. NOAA viewpoints on management and legislative implications of recent oil spills. Marine Technology Society Journal. Vol. 24, no. 4. December. pp. 23-27.
Ehler, Charles N., 1990. Management and legislative implications of recent oil spills. Oil Spills (Malcolm L. Spaulding and Mark Reed, eds.). American Society of Civil Engineers: New York, NY. pp. 1-12.
Ehler, Charles N. 1990. Oceans of data—islands of knowledge: information for decisions about the use of coastal ocean space. In: Coastal Ocean Space Utilization (Susan D. Halsey and Robert B. Abel, eds.). Elsevier: New York. pp. 3-7.
1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill, Prince William Sound, Alaska, 24 March 1989
1988
US President Reagan signs ocean dumping Ban Act in November.
Ehler, Charles N., et al., 1988. The Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas Coastal and Ocean Zones Data Atlas, NOAA Ocean Assessments Division: Silver Spring, MD. 127 maps and text.
"[NOAA] relied on science-based data to build maps and expert opinion to fill gaps in knowledge. It created a set of thematic maps covering physical processes and pelagic, demersal, and benthic fauna, including invertebrates, fish, birds, and mammals. This excellent, but now outdated, work provided much useful information for the [2010 Audubon Alaska] atlas. In many cases, recent science has advanced beyond the knowledge in existence when this atlas was created; in many other cases, this atlas still captures the best information available."
– Audubon Alaska, Introduction, Atlas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, 2010
1986
Ehler, Charles, et al. 1986. New oceanic and coastal atlases focus on potential EEZ conflicts. Oceanus. Vol. 29, no. 3. Fall. pp. 42-51.
Ehler, Charles N., Daniel J. Basta, et al., 1986. The Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Ocean Zones Data Atlas. US Government Printing Office: Washington, DC. 163 maps and text.
"As plans to restore the Gulf of Mexico after recent disasters [Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010] have progressed, federal and state agencies have turned to NOAA for data and information about all aspects of the Gulf of Mexico. One of the most requested resources for that data and information has been the "Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Ocean Zones Strategic Assessment Data Atlas" published by NOAA's National Ocean Service in 1985 as a large hardcopy tabletop book.
– NOAA NODC Website, 2013
Ehler, Charles N., et al., 1986. A National Atlas of the Health and Use of Coastal Waters. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Silver Spring, MD. 5 folio maps.
1985
Ehler, Charles N., et al., 1985. The National Coastal Pollutant Discharge Inventory. Coastal Zone ‘85, Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. 1985. pp. 961-977.
1984
Ehler, Charles N., and Daniel J. Basta, 1984. Strategic assessment of multiple resource-use conflicts in the US Exclusive Economic Zone. In: Exclusive Economic Zone Papers. Marine Technology Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Washington, DC. pp. 1-6.
Charles N. Ehler. 1984. Foreword to The Use of Economic Analysis in Valuing Natural Resource Damages. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Rockville, MD. pp. iii-iv.
1983
President Reagan (USA) declares world's first Exclusive Economic Zone on 10 March 1983
Ehler, Charles N., and Daniel J. Basta, 1983. NOAA’s strategic assessment programme in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin. Vol. 14, no. 9. pp. 325-334.
Ehler, Charles N., Daniel J. Basta, and Thomas F. LaPointe, 1983. Analyzing the effects of operational ;discharges of oil from ships into the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the 1983 International Oil Spill Conference. American Petroleum Institute: Washington, DC.
Ehler, Charles N., Daniel J. Basta, and Thomas F. LaPointe. 1983. An automated data system for strategic assessment of living marine resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of AUTOCARTO5, Conference on Environmental Assessment and Resource Management. pp. 83-91.
Ehler, Charles N., et al., 1983. Identifying and Evaluating Alternative Ocean Dump Sites: an Illustration of an Operational Framework for Strategic Assessment. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Rockville, MD. 35 p.
Ehler, Charles N., 1983. Foreword to Assessing the Social Costs of Oil Spills: the Amoco Cadiz ;Case Study, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Rockville, MD.
1982
The United Nations Law of Sea Convention opened for signature in December
Bower, Blair T., Charles N. Ehler, and Daniel J. Basta, 1982. Coastal and Ocean Resources Management: A Framework for Analysis. International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study (IFIAS): Solna, Sweden. 59 p.
Ehler, Charles N., and Daniel J. Basta, 1982. Information for assessing the future use of ocean resources. Marine Pollution Bulletin. Vol. 13, no. 6. pp. 186-191.
Ehler, Charles N., 1982. Foreword to Economics of Ocean Resources: A Research Agenda (Brown, Gardner M., and James A. Cruthfield, eds.). University of Washington Press: Seattle, WA. pp. vii-ix.
Ehler, Charles N., et al. 1982. Strategic assessment of US coastal and ocean regions: preliminary results of the East Coast project. Coastal Zone ‘80, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management (Billy L. Edge, ed.). pp. 2938-2962.
1980
Ehler, Charles N., Daniel J. Basta, et al., 1980. Eastern US Coastal and Ocean Zones Data Atlas. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Rockville, MD. 127 maps and text.
1978
Amoco Cadiz oil spill, Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978
1977
Bower, Blair T., Charles N. Ehler, & Allen V. Kneese, 1977. Incentives for managing the environment. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 11, no. 3. March 1977. pp. 250-254. (abridged version published in Environmental Comment, January, Vol. 4, no. 1)
Ehler, Charles N., 1977. An overview of EPA’s land use and environmental quality management research program. Proceedings of the Research Symposium on Environmental Quality and Land Use Planning. US Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, DC. pp. 23-25.
1976
Spofford, Walter O., & Charles N. Ehler, 1976. Regional residuals-environmental quality management models: applications to EPA’s regional management programs. In: Environmental Modeling and Simulation (Wayne R. Ott, ed.). US Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, DC. 1976. pp. 407-413.
1975
Ehler, Charles N., 1975. Management systems for minimizing regional environmental stress: research and applied aspects of planning, implementation, and enforcement. Second Joint US/USSR Symposium on the Comprehensive Analysis of the Environment. US Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, DC. pp. 144-154.
Ehler, Charles N., M. Dean High, and Terrence A. LiPuma, 1975. Socio-economic analyses of air quality maintenance strategies: the Baltimore case study. Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association. June.
Ehler, Charles N., and Roger D. Shull, 1975. Integrated regional environmental quality management: extending the concepts of area-wide waste treatment management. Proceedings of Planning ‘75: Innovation in Action, 58th Annual Conference of the American Institute of Planners.
1973
Ehler, Charles N., 1973. Intergovernmental communication in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region. Urban Telecommunications Forum. Vol. 2, no. 3, March. pp. 7-8.
Ehler, Charles N., 1973. Transportation: problems and prospects. Science Books. Vol. 9, no. 1. May.
Ehler, Charles N., 1973. Planning education for real. Bulletin of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Vol. 11, no. 1. Spring. pp. 5-8.
1972
Ehler, Charles N., 1972. The spoils of progress: environmental pollution in the Soviet Union (book review). Science Books. Vol. 8, no. 3. December. p. 202.
Ehler, Charles N., 1972. Environmental systems planning and management: a preliminary sorting of the literature. Council of Planning Librarians: Monticello, IL. Exchange Bibliography No. 251. January. 64 p.
Ehler, Charles N., 1972. Integrative forecasting and planning: an annotated review of the literature. /strong> Council of Planning Librarians: Monticello, IL. Exchange Bibliography No. 252. January. 65 p.
1971
Ehler, Charles N., 1971. Urban systems design: toward an ecological re-think. American Behavioral Scientist (Special issue: “The American City of the Future”). Vol. 14, no. 6. July/August. pp. 791-801.
1970
Ehler, Charles N., 1970. Toward management of the environment (review article). Progressive Architecture. Vol. 51, no. 11. November 1970. pp. 118-126.
First Earth Day celebration, Washington, DC, 22 April 1970
Ehler, Charles N., 1970. The future of the future (review article). Progressive Architecture. Vol. 51, no. 1. January 1970. pp. 152-155.
1969
Santa Barbara oil spill, Santa Barbara Channel, California, 28 January 1969
Ehler, Charles N., Robert M. Beckley, and Hubert C. White, 1969. Unified Transportation Systems and Future Urban and Regional Development. Final report to the Graham Foundation in the Fine Arts, Chicago. June 1969. 152 p.
1968
Ehler, Charles N., 1968. Urban Mechanisms: A Control Tool for Planning. University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. 96 p. (Masters thesis available from University Microfilms, Inc.).
Ehler, Charles N., 1968. Les Mechanismes Urbains. Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Architecturales: Brussels, Belgium. Cahiers no. 3.2. 48 p.
Ehler, Charles N., 1968. Methode des mechanisms urbains: exemples. L’Architecture d’au Jour d’Hui. ;Vol. 27, no. 9. September (article on graduate regional planning thesis).
1967
Ehler, Charles N., 1967. Town planning research. L’Architecture d’au Jour d’Hui. Vol. 26, no. 10. October (publication of architectural undergraduate thesis).