The 2011 PNLG Forum, carrying the theme "Achieving Sustainable Blue Economy through Integrated Coastal Management," will be held from 25 to 27 July 2011 at Dongying City, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
The 2010 forum, to be attended by officials from various local government units in the East Asian Seas region, will provide a venue for mutual learning and mentoring among the the members of the network.
To learn more about the forum, download the provisional programme.
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Building on the success of the 2007 International Symposium on the Science and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs held at Dowling College, New York, USA, a second International Workshop on the Science and Conservation of Asian Horseshoe Crabs has been organized in Hong Kong.

PEMSEA will be conducting a Regional Integrated Coastal Management (Level 1) Course on May 10-13, 2011 in Danang, Vietnam. The course aims to provide participants with better understanding of how the ICM framework has become a useful methodology to promote sustainable development of coastal areas. It is intended to strengthen participants' knowledge and skills essential in the implementation of ICM program.

The course will cover the following topics:

IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC) announces its 8th International Scientific Symposium to be held on March 28-31, 2011, at Paradise Hotel, Busan, Republic of Korea, generously hosted by Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM). This Symposium will be co-organized by IOC/WESTPAC and Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI).

The recent chain of oil spills worldwide have garnered international media attention and have drawn public scrutiny due to its sheer impact on the environment. Oil spill incidents will not only incur monetary losses on the company, but the company’s reputation will be at stake as well due to the starkly visible and detrimental effects on the environment.

As the last territory on the earth, the ocean is the living space and treasure house for human beings. From a global perspective, World Ocean Week (WOW) in Xiamen serves as a platform for regional cooperation as well as for connecting marine and social science, technology, education, public awareness in making policies, management decisions and actions to achieve sustainable use of coastal and marine resources and for achieving sustainable development of the oceans.

The GEF IW Conference objectives are to facilitate cross-sectoral and portfolio-wide learning and experience sharing. It strives to solicit advice from the existing GEF IW portfolio on burning issues, and to assist in building participant capacity in key management and technical areas. Participants sum up progress achieved and also look to the future of programming within and beyond the GEF IW focal area.

ICMEG is an annual conference that presents current research being carried out in marine environmental governance.

This year's conference, ICMEG 2012, will be held on September 27-28, 2012 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ICMEG 2012 aims to bring together researchers, scientists, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Marine Environmental Governance, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Australia's biennnial Coast to Coast Conference is renowned for providing an excellent forum for all with an interest in coastal, estuarine and marine matters to meet and to share knowledge and experiences in the areas of management, science, policy, governance, advocacy and other related topics.

In fact it has become the most important conference for bridging the divides between the various sectors and making a difference. It has been successfully held every two years since 1994 at venues in different States around Australia.

The "Oceans of Potential" conference will bring together stakeholders from a broad range of disciplines to discuss these opportunities and to place marine science at the heart of an exciting vision of the future.