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Implications of Governance and Management Efforts for the Resilience of the Great Barrier Reef
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Implications of Governance and Management Efforts for the Resilience of the Great Barrier Reef

Pedro Fidelman
USC Research Conference, 2013 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 01-Jul-2013–05-Jul-2013)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2013
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Abstract

Policy and Administration Great Barrier Reef governance
Governance and management efforts have been undertaken in the Great Barrier Reef to address climate and non-climate stressors, such as climate change, declining water quality from catchment runoff, loss of coastal habitats from development and impacts from commercial and traditional fishing. Generally, governance and management efforts addressing individual stressors have the potential to affect resilience by influencing interconnected parts of a social-ecological system. In the case of the GBR, this may ultimately undermine the ability of the social-ecological system to provide ecosystem services that support regional communities and industries. In this paper we draw on an analytical framework based on governance, problem framing, and sensitivity to feedbacks in conjunction with principles for enhancing resilience to examine how governance and management efforts can impact on the ability of the GBR to absorb further disturbances, adapt to current and future changes, and learn and create new pathways of change. We use case studies within the GBR that refl ect governance and management efforts involving various actors, sectors and scales to demonstrate how these efforts can have profound implications for long-term social-ecological resilience. Our analysis of the GBR social-ecological system provides lessons that may prove valuable to the resilience and adaptation theory, policy and practice.

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