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Sur Center for Maritime Futures

August 6, 2014 by VisionArc

Oman’s maritime heritage stretches back more the 6,500 years. Its strategic position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, along with early advances in boat building, navigation and trade allowed it to emerge as one of the pioneering nations in seafaring. Today this heritage continues through the country’s active container port infrastructure, competitive sailing culture, […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Architecture, landon brown, oceans, Oman, Sailing, strategic design, toshiko mori

Frameworks for Systemic Thinking: The Bay of Pasaia

July 25, 2011 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the Basque Government agency Bilbao Metropoli-30 to produce an analysis of an urban regeneration plan proposed in the Bay of Pasaia. Currently used for port and industrial activity, the Bay of Pasaia is a unique ecological zone within one of the few natural fijords on the Cantabrian coast. The regeneration is […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Basque Country, Bilbao, Design, ecology, ecosystem, oceans, Pasaia, remediation, strategic, System, systems, urban, urbanism, visionarc, Water

Mare Liberum (‘Free Seas’)

July 19, 2010 by VisionArc

Recently, VisionArc reported on a current United Nations research initiative to develop a set of quantitative and evaluative tools to measure the economic and external values embodied within ecosystems. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is part of a growing conceptual and global policy shift towards more rigorous, coordinated and quantitative standards for ecosystem […]

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Eco-nomics

June 25, 2010 by VisionArc

The ongoing financial crisis has made abundantly clear the fact that we are connected by a highly complex system of economic and human capital. As this system has fallen into crisis in the past few years, we have seen the focus turn to the mechanisms and institutions responsible for regulating its health and those whose […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: coral reef, economics, ecosystem, environmental crisis, oceans