The economic value of ecosystem services in the Great Barrier Reef: our state of knowledge

Stoeckl, Natalie; Hicks, Christina C.; Mills, Morena; Fabricius, Katharina; Esparon, Michelle; Kroon, Frederieke J.; Kaur, Kamaljit; Costanza, Robert

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05892.x

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“…We acknowledge that there are many other actor groups interacting with the Reef (Figure 1). Reef tourism, for instance, is a major income generator for the Region (Stoeckl et al 2011). However tourism impact is concentrated and considered to be minor (GBRMPA 2009;Day and Dobbs 2013).…”

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Keeping the ‘Great’ in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Evans¹,

Ban²,

Schoon³

et al. 2014

Int J Commons

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Abstract:As part of an international collaboration to compare large-scale commons, we used the Social-Ecological Systems Meta-Analysis Database (SESMAD) to systematically map out attributes of and changes in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) in Australia. We focus on eight design principles from common-pool resource (CPR) theory and other key social-ecological systems governance variables, and explore to what extent they help explain the social and ecological outcomes of park management through time. Our analysis showed that commercial fisheries management and the re-zoning of the GBRMP in 2004 led to improvements in ecological condition of the reef, particularly fisheries. These boundary and rights changes were supported by effective monitoring, sanctioning and conflict resolution. Moderate biophysical connectivity was also important Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef 397 for improved outcomes. However, our analysis also highlighted that continued challenges to improved ecological health in terms of coral cover and biodiversity can be explained by fuzzy boundaries between land and sea, and the significance of external drivers to even large-scale social-ecological systems (SES). While ecological and institutional fit in the marine SES was high, this was not the case when considering the coastal SES. Nested governance arrangements become even more important at this larger scale. To our knowledge, our paper provides the first analysis linking the re-zoning of the GBRMP to CPR and SES theory. We discuss important challenges to coding large-scale systems for meta-analysis.Keywords: Coral reefs, fisheries, Great Barrier Reef, large-scale, marine, socialecological system Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the SESMAD team for their support and collaboration, in particular Michael Cox. LE and NB acknowledge funding support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. NB also thanks NSERC and SSHRC for financial support. Finally, we are grateful to those who reviewed our paper, including three anonymous reviewers. The arguments developed here are the sole responsibility of the authors.

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“…It covers about 345,000 km 2 , contains many types of ecosystems (e.g. islands, coral reefs, seagrass, deep ocean), and provides a variety of ecosystem services to people (GBRMPA 2009;Stoeckl et al 2011). The GBRMP was established in 1975 and re-zoned in 2004 to improve biodiversity conservation.…”

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Keeping the ‘Great’ in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Evans¹,

Ban²,

Schoon³

et al. 2014

Int J Commons

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“…Many academics have been involved in research relating to ecosystem accounting (e.g. Aisbett & Kragt, 2010;Binning, Cork, Parry & Shelton, 2001;Crossman et al, 2013;Gillespie, Dumsday & Bennett, 2008;Pittock, Cork & Maynard, 2012;Russell-Smith et al, 2013;Stoeckl et al, 2011;Straton & Zander, 2009;Tovey, 2008;van Dijk et al, 2014). This activity has added significantly to the theory and practice of environmental accounting in Australia.…”

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Land Use in Australia: Past, Present and Future

Clancy¹,

Bryan²,

Guru³

2018

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“…The GBRMP was initially established to prevent mining within the park boundaries (Table 2). With continued evidence of declining ecosystem health, including regulating and supporting services (Stoeckl et al 2011), subsequent management changes reduced the extent and intensity of provisioning services (i.e., commercial and recreational fishing). Of the users, commercial fishers carried the highest cost and recreational fishers some cost, whereas tourists benefited.…”

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Interplay of multiple goods, ecosystem services, and property rights in large social-ecological marine protected areas

Ban

Evans

Nenadović

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Protected areas are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, and increasingly, conservation science is integrating ecological and social considerations in park management. Indeed, both social and ecological factors need to be considered to understand processes that lead to changes in environmental conditions. Here, we use a social-ecological systems lens to examine changes in governance through time in an extensive regional protected area network, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. We studied the peerreviewed and nonpeer-reviewed literature to develop an understanding of governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and its management changes through time. In particular, we examined how interacting and changing property rights, as designated by the evolving marine protected area network and other institutional changes (e.g., fisheries management), defined multiple goods and ecosystem services and altered who could benefit from them. The rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 2004 substantially altered the types and distribution of property rights and associated benefits from ecosystem goods and services. Initially, commonpool resources were enjoyed as common and private benefits at the expense of public goods (overexploited fisheries and reduced biodiversity and ecosystem health). The rezoning redefined the available goods and benefits and who could benefit, prioritizing public goods and benefits (i.e., biodiversity conservation), and inducing private costs (through reduced fishing). We also found that the original conceptualization of the step-wise progression of property rights from user to owner oversimplifies property rights based on its division into operational and collective-choice rule-making levels. Instead, we suggest that a diversity of available management tools implemented simultaneously can result in interactions that are seldom fully captured by the original conceptualization of the bundling of property rights. Understanding the complexities associated with overlapping property rights and multiple goods and ecosystem services, particularly within large-scale systems, can help elucidate the source and nature of some of the governance challenges that large protected areas are facing.

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The economic value of ecosystem services in the Great Barrier Reef: our state of knowledge

Cited by 84 publications

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Keeping the ‘Great’ in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Keeping the ‘Great’ in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Land Use in Australia: Past, Present and Future

Interplay of multiple goods, ecosystem services, and property rights in large social-ecological marine protected areas

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