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The reefs of the Indian Ocean are among the most spectacular and interesting of reefs, although few scientists have been able to visit them. This work provides an overview of the ecology of these reefs.
Coral reef ecology --- Coral reef conservation --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Ecology --- Conservation
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'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.
Coral reef conservation --- Coral reef management --- Coral reefs and islands --- Ecosystem management --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Management --- Conservation
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Coral reef ecology --- Coral reef conservation --- Ecologie des récifs coralliens --- Conservation des récifs coralliens --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Ecology --- Conservation
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One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
Natural history --- Coral reef conservation --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Coral reefs and islands --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Conservation --- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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Coral reef conservation. --- Coral reef restoration. --- Coral reef rehabilitation --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef rehabilitation, Coral --- Reef restoration, Coral --- Restoration of coral reefs and islands --- Coral reef management --- Restoration ecology --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Restoration --- Conservation
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Coral reef conservation. --- Coral reef restoration. --- Coral reef rehabilitation --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef rehabilitation, Coral --- Reef restoration, Coral --- Restoration of coral reefs and islands --- Coral reef management --- Restoration ecology --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Restoration --- Conservation --- Esculls coral·lins --- Conservació de recursos marins
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This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical coral reef degradation and loss, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include ecotourism, debt-for-nature swaps, impact investments, and government domestic budgetary expenditures. From the Great Barrier Reef, to the Coral Triangle, to the Mesoamerican Reef, tropical coral reef degradation and loss are serious global environmental issues, contributing to loss revenue and food insecurity for coastal communities, and species extinction. Yet, many leading companies, individuals, and governments are making a positive impact on tropical coral reef conservation through the use of conservation finance. Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs, using 30 case studies which span 23 countries and 6 continents, tells the history of international conservation finance and provides a variety of options for individuals, businesses, and governments to support conservation financing projects. Brian McFarland is the Senior Vice President at Carbonfund.org Foundation. Brian is a certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute, a Certified Sustainability Professional from the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, and holds dual graduate degrees in Business Administration and Global Environmental Policy. Brian has also published two previous books entitled, REDD+ and Business Sustainability and Conservation of Tropical Rainforests: A Review of Financial and Strategic Solutions.
Environment. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental geography. --- Industrial management—Environmental aspects. --- Natural resources. --- Nature conservation. --- Environment Studies. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental Geography. --- Sustainability Management. --- Natural Resource and Energy Economics. --- Nature Conservation. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Geography --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Conservation --- Economic aspects --- Coral reef conservation --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Coral reefs and islands --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation
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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"-- Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach—which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations—in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa—negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life.In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?
Coastal biodiversity conservation --- Coastal zone management --- Coral reef conservation --- Conservation of coral reefs --- Coral reefs and islands --- Maintenance of coral reef productivity --- Nature conservation --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Coastal engineering --- Coast biodiversity conservation --- Coastal biodiversity --- Coastal zone biodiversity conservation --- Conservation of coastal biodiversity --- Biodiversity conservation --- Conservation --- Management --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Azië --- J7510 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general)
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