Measuring what matters in the Great Barrier Reef

Marshall, Nadine; Barnes, Michele L.; Birtles, Alastair; Brown, Katrina; Cinner, Joshua E.; Curnock, Matt; Eakin, Hallie; Goldberg, Jeremy; Gooch, Margaret; Kittinger, Jack; Marshall, Paul; Manuel-Navarrete, David; Pelling, Mark; Pert, Petina L.; Smit, Barry; Tobin, Renae

doi:10.1002/fee.1808

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“…Drawing on Marshall et al (2018)'s framework of human-environment cultural values, we examined different meanings or values that people held for the GBR (Table 1). Some questions about living within the GBR region were not for tourists.…”

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“…Similarly, climate change can severely impact on the cultural relationship that people have with natural places in ways that are perceived as loss (Barnett et al 2016). Marshall et al (2018) proposed a list of ways in which the natural environment can be culturally important to people, that could be incorporated into environmental strategic planning, and which we adopt in this study as 'place meanings' or 'place values' (Marshall et al 2018). Such cultural values include attachment to place, lifestyle around a place, pride in the status of a place, place identity, and well-being (associated with a place) as well as the appreciation of a place's aesthetic and biodiversity-based values.…”

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Reef Grief: investigating the relationship between place meanings and place change on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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It is well established that ecosystems bring meaning and well-being to individuals, often articulated through attachment to place. Degradation and threats to places and ecosystems have been shown to lead to loss of well-being. Here, we suggest that the interactions between ecosystem loss and declining well-being may involve both emotional responses associated with grief, and with observable impacts on mental health. We test these ideas on so-called ecological grief by examining individual emotional response to well-documented and publicized ecological degradation: coral bleaching and mortality in the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. The study focuses both on one off events of coral loss and the prospect of continuing decline on the self-reported well-being of residents living within the ecosystem, visitors, and those whose livelihood is dependent on the marine resource: data from face-to-face surveys of 1870 local residents, 1804 tourists, and telephone surveys of 91 fishers and 94 tourism operators. We hypothesise that the extent to which individuals experience ecological grief is dependent on the meanings or intrinsic values (such as aesthetic, scientific, or biodiversity-based values), and is moderated by their place attachment, place identity, lifestyle dependence, place-based pride, and derived well-being. Results show that around half of residents, tourists and tourist operators surveyed, and almost one quarter of fishers, report significant Reef Grief. Reef Grief is closely and positively associated with place meanings within resident and tourist populations. By contrast respondents who rated high aesthetic value of the coral ecosystem report lower levels of Reef Grief. These findings have significant implications for how individuals and populations experience ecosystem decline and loss within places that are meaningful to them. Given inevitable cumulative future impacts on ecosystems from committed climate change impacts, understanding and managing ecological grief will become increasingly important. This study seeks to lay conceptual and theoretical foundations to identify how ecological grief is manifest and related to meaningful places and the social distribution of such grief across society.

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Reef Grief: investigating the relationship between place meanings and place change on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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“…The fact that monitoring exercises were reported as having taken place in the GBR more often than in NE NSW may be due to greater public and international pressure, a stronger mandate within GBRMPA (than in NSW government departments) and the involvement of diverse reef user groups (e.g. tourism representatives were not mentioned amongst influential stakeholders in NE NSW) (Marshall et al, 2018). Differences in staffing, budgets and overall capacity may also be relevant, and have been shown to be the strongest predictors of conservation impact (Gill et al, 2017).…”

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Barriers to the evaluation of systematic conservation plans: Insights from landmark Australian plans

McIntosh

2019

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The evaluation of conservation programs is often inhibited by barriers such as time 7 constraints and a lack of funding. Through an exploration of two internationally influential 8 systematic conservation planning activities conducted in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, I 9 demonstrate this is also true for conservation planning programs. Forestry agreements in North East New South Wales and the rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park popularised the now widely used planning software packages C-Plan and Marxan. Through 37 semi-structured interviews with senior stakeholders involved in decision-making around both plans, I examined barriers to evaluation, the factors underpinning these barriers, and, in the absence of program-wide evaluations, stakeholder perceptions of the effectiveness of the plans. My findings confirmed that the primary barriers to the evaluation of conservation planning exercises are a lack of suitable monitoring data, resource limitations and inadequate preparation. Respondents also shed light on the factors which shaped these barriers in a conservation context, such as the need for political expediency, a loss of momentum postplan, and the presence or absence of necessary leadership. Perceptions of the effectiveness of the plans reflected interpretations of a) whether the planning process followed good practice, b) the fact a planning result was agreed upon and implemented, c) the longer-term influence of the plan, and, in contrast to much of the current literature on these case studies, d) the consequences of industry restructuring. Highlights • Barriers to evaluation were due to lack of resources and preparation • Political context and organisational culture shaped barriers to evaluation • Healthcare and other disciplines face similar challenges and can offer lessons • New perspectives on project effectiveness are shared from senior decision-makers • Perceptions of effectiveness also reflected the effects of industry compensation

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“…Complex connections make SoP hard to measure. For instance, the existence of the Great Barrier Reef will contribute to people's SoP even if they may never visit it (Marshall et al 2018). Conversely, being forcibly displaced from an area that one has always known, for example, as a consequence of sea level rise, can be very traumatic for groups of (indigenous) people with a strong SoP (Corlew 2012).…”

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A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems

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2018. A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems. Ecology and Society 23(4):4. https://doi.ABSTRACT. Successfully managing current threats to marine resources and ecosystems is largely dependent on our ability to understand and manage human behavior. In recent times we have seen increased growth in research to understand the human dimension of marine resource use, and the associated implications for management. However, despite progress to date, marine research and management have until recently largely neglected the critically important role of "sense of place," and its role in influencing the success and efficacy of management interventions. To help address this gap we review the existing literature from various disciplines, e.g., environmental psychology, and sectors, both marine and nonmarine sectors, to understand the ways is which sense of place has been conceptualized and measured. Doing so we draw on three key aspects of sense of place, person, place, and process, to establish a framework to help construct a more organized and consistent approach for considering and representing sense of place in marine environmental studies. Based on this we present indicators to guide how sense of place is monitored and evaluated in relation to marine resource management, and identify practical ways in which this framework can be incorporated into existing decision-support tools. This manuscript is a first step toward increasing the extent to which sense of place is incorporated into modeling, monitoring, and management decisions in the marine realm.Ecology and Society 23(4): 4 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss4/art4/

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Measuring what matters in the Great Barrier Reef

Cited by 29 publications

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Reef Grief: investigating the relationship between place meanings and place change on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Reef Grief: investigating the relationship between place meanings and place change on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Barriers to the evaluation of systematic conservation plans: Insights from landmark Australian plans

A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems

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