TY - BOOK ID - 78646082 TI - Managing coral reefs PY - 2018 SN - 1783087986 1783087978 9781783087976 9781783087983 9781783087969 178308796X PB - London Anthem Press DB - UniCat KW - Coral reef conservation KW - Coral reef management KW - Coral reefs and islands KW - Ecosystem management KW - Conservation of coral reefs KW - Maintenance of coral reef productivity KW - Nature conservation KW - Management KW - Conservation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646082 AB - 'Managing Coral Reefs' examines Indonesia's and Malaysia's pathways to implementing the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), focusing specifically on how regional and national policies in Southeast Asia have fared when implementing the Aichi Targets of the CBD. These targets include safeguarding ecosystems through protection and ensuring that benefits from ecosystems can be enjoyed by all. Kelly Heber Dunning examines CBD implementation through marine protected areas (MPAs) for corals reefs in Indonesia and Malaysia. Coral reefs, along with mangroves and seagrass, provide stakeholders with livelihoods in fisheries and tourism; they are also efficient natural barriers against extreme weather and climate change-related hazards. While Indonesia uses a co-managed framework, whereby villages and governments share power, to implement its MPAs, Malaysia uses a top-down network of federally managed Marine Parks. Using mixed methods through interviews and surveys as well as coral reef ecology surveys conducted over a year of fieldwork, Dunning argues that co-managed systems are the current best practice for implementing the CBD's Aichi Targets in tropical developing countries. Not only do they prevent ecosystems from many local forms of degradation, but they also are seen as more legitimate by local resource user stakeholders, allowing them more adaptive capacity to manage the ecosystems under conditions of uncertainty, as well as allowing for a more integrated form of management whereby ecological, economic, and social considerations can be made for management decisions. Centralized MPAs can mimic the successes of co-managed systems through better stakeholder engagement, possibly with greater socio-ecological success in the long run, due to their superior financial, administrative and organizational powers. ER -