Managing Coral Reefs An Ecological and Institutional Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia

About this book

Managing Coral Reefs examines Indonesia's and Malaysia's pathways to implementing the 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. Kelly Heber Dunning examines CBD implementation through marine protected areas (MPAs) for coral reefs in Indonesia and Malaysia. 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.

Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. Theory, Practice and Policy Context of Coral Reef Management
3. Governing Natural Resources in Indonesia and Malaysia
4. Case Study Sites and the Coral Triangle
5. Integrated Management of Marine Protected Areas
6. Legitimate Marine Protected Areas
7. Adaptive Capacity of Marine Protected Areas
8. Policy Recommendations for Marine Protected Area Management in Developing Countries

Appendix A. Research Design
Appendix B. Data and Methods
Appendix C. Coral Cover Results
References
Index

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Biography

Kelly Heber Dunning is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in natural resource management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and an MSc in environmental policy from Oxford University, UK.