Resources for Managers

Climate change

Guide produced by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority includes contributions from Centre of Excellence researchers, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Dr Andrew Baird, Dr Ken Anthony and Dr Laurence McCook.

How the Great Barrier Reef and its industries can adapt to climate change: some scenarios. This report draws four alternative future scenarios – snapshots of possible futures – which are designed to help the communities, businesses and industries involved in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to understand and discuss how climate change may affect the Reef and those who depend on it. Authors: Louisa Evans, Pedro Fidelman, Christina Hicks, Allison Perry, Renae Tobin. August 2011.

Connectivity

Preserving reef connectivity: a handbook for marine protected area managers. This handbook, co-authored by Geoff Jones, aims to assist MPA managers and others in understanding and applying the concept of connectivity in their work. In this way, it hopes to help managers strengthen their ability to tackle the challenging task of sustaining coastal marine environments.

Coral health

Coral Disease Handbook: Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring and Management. Handbook produced by the GEF Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program, includes research undertaken by Centre researcher Professor Bette Willis and others.

Resilience (social, ecological, social-ecological)

Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners workbook. Manual prepared by the Resilience Alliance, a Centre of Excellence partner.

Monitoring functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience: A practical guide of coral reef managers in the Asia Pacific region. Guide produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was written by Alison Green and David Bellwood. It provides practical advice to field practitioners based on an example from the Asia Pacific Region. Key functional groups of herbivores are identified, species are assigned to each functional group, and methods are provided for monitoring their abundance, biomass and size structure.

Governance & People

Policy Brief: Promoting collaborative management of small-scale fisheries in the tropics. Collaborative (co-) management provides resource users with a greater say in making and enforcing rules for small-scale fisheries. When properly implemented, co-management can help to sustain fisheries and the livelihoods of people that depend on the ocean. Co-management is most successful when key socio-economic, contextual, and institutional conditions are in place. These conditions are highlighted in this policy brief by Joshua Cinnner and Tim McClanahan.

Considering gender: Practical guidance for rural development initiatives in Solomon Islands. This program brief highlights and summarizes the findings and knowledge sharing of two workshops between 2015 and 2016 with representatives from national and provincial governments, and nongovernmental organizations of Solomon Islands. Combining these insights and findings from a WorldFish study helps formulate the gender-transformative approach where development actors and communities closely work together to identify, examine, question and attempt to shift, in locally appropriate ways, harmful or inequitable gender norms and power imbalances between women and men.

Coral bleaching

What is coral bleaching? How does it affect the Great Barrier Reef? This short information sheet will answer your questions in a clear and concise way.

Marine resources management

Key principles and research findings in marine resources management. The following presentations were given by Professor Terry Hughes during a series of workshops in collaboration with Queensland Parks and Wildlife (QPW). Click on the images to download .pdf versions.

Crown Of Thorns Starfish. Presentation by Terry Hughes.

An Environmental History of Human Impacts on Coral Reefs. Presentation by Terry Hughes.

Fish-Exclusion Experiment. Presentation by Terry Hughes.

What are the Benefits of No-Take Zones? How Do They Work? Presentation by Terry Hughes.

Ecosystem Effects of Overfishing. Presentation by Terry Hughes.