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The Special Area Management Project was a deliberate experiment by the Government of Ecuador to f... more The Special Area Management Project was a deliberate experiment by the Government of Ecuador to find out whether the Coastal Resources Management Program, CRMP, could (1) engage local residents, resource users and authorities in an open planning process to address the future use of coastal resources and (2) use the planning process to build a bridge toward implementation both through creating local capacity and establishing a national commitment for implementation. Coastal communities were asked to jointly create a vision for the future environmental quality and development of critical areas, develop a local consensus on the policies and actions needed to reach this desired future, and identify practical actions which would create the capacity to govern coastal resource use in a context where all existing agencies and policies had failed. This paper describes the strategy, structure and process followed by the CRMP to achieve the central result of the experiment, which was the succe...
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Best sites for shrimp farm in Ecuador are located in the beach and bay zone. Another option is up... more Best sites for shrimp farm in Ecuador are located in the beach and bay zone. Another option is upland. Several procedures for obtaining a lease in the beach and bay zone or to buy vacant or private upland are established and several public institutions are involved. Enforcement is not always possible and illegal operations are found in some areas. The public institutions were not prepared for the sudden upsurge for operating permits in El Nino years. Recommendations are made for the future.
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The preparation and adoption of community-based plans for sustainable use and development of coas... more The preparation and adoption of community-based plans for sustainable use and development of coastal resources and areas has been one of the major early goals of the Ecuador coastal resources management program. Five special area plans have been prepared for the continental coast. Locally, these areas are known as Zonas Especiales de Manejo (ZEM). This paper summarizes the experience of the Coastal Resources Management Program in the process of helping local people to identify key management issues and to prepare and approve a ZEM plan containing local desires and policies for the sustainable use of natural resources.
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Tuna ranching is a value-added economic activity along the coast of Baja California in Mexico inv... more Tuna ranching is a value-added economic activity along the coast of Baja California in Mexico involving the live capture and transport of migrating juvenile tuna to pens located near shore, where they are fed for a period of months then harvested and shipped fresh to Japan for the high- end sushi market. It is nested within the global business of tuna fishing and processing for the fresh seafood, in particular sushi market, centered in Japan but expanding elsewhere. This is turn is nested in the entire fishery and global business of tuna. Little is known outside the industry about the functioning of Mexican tuna ranching, however it differs in important ways compared to its Australian and controversial Mediterranean competitors that indicate relative stability, most notably that it does not involve the harvest of reproducing age animals. Our analysis and exploratory modeling exercise reveals no cause for complacency however. There are several factors and issues, most of which are no...
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System dynamics concepts and methods are rarely referenced in the field of coastal resources mana... more System dynamics concepts and methods are rarely referenced in the field of coastal resources management, even though coastal systems and decision-making are dynamically complex and the SD literature offers a rich and relevant body of theory, practice and models. Recent work in the theory of ecosystem management calls for the use of modeling and is becoming of increasing interest to coastal managers. A simple stock and flow model of coastal management is presented that is drawn from the legislative design of one of the oldest and certainly successful U.S. state programs, Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Management Program. This model exhibits several dynamic behaviors intuitively familiar to coastal managers. Model runs are presented using parameters taken from the Rhode Island case, including runs with and without the coastal management program in place. These results are compared with performance data from the 35 year Rhode Island coastal program’s permit data base, and closely rep...
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By Armando Villalba and Donald Robadue Jr. The resource users of Santa María Bay in Sinaloa, Mexi... more By Armando Villalba and Donald Robadue Jr. The resource users of Santa María Bay in Sinaloa, Mexico, have embarked upon a path-breaking initiative to prepare a conservation and development plan which will weave together the sectoral policies and highly fragmented administration of bay uses into a coherent vision and integrative structure for bay decisionmaking. This project was not the brainchild of state or federal environmental officials, but of leaders from the coastal municipality of Angostura who, in 1998, requested help from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). The UAS appealed in turn to Conservation International’s (CIMEX) regional office based in Guaymas, Sonora. This request for help coincided with CIMEX’s interest in carrying out practical projects to put Mexico’s recent environmental laws into action. In 1978 all of the nearly 900 islands in the guIf were declared patrimony of the Mexican federation and included in the Gulf Islands Flora and Fauna Refuge. Santa Ma...
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The Quintana Roo coastal ecosystem is characterized by extensive coastal wetlands, a fringing ree... more The Quintana Roo coastal ecosystem is characterized by extensive coastal wetlands, a fringing reef that develops .5 to 1.5 Km. offshore and vast seagrass beds in the adjacent reef lagoon. While protected areas and Ecological Planning Ordinances have not specifically been ...
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... Brian Crawford, Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island Jeremiah Daffa, Tanzania... more ... Brian Crawford, Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island Jeremiah Daffa, Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership Appa Mandari, Tanzania ... based threats to biodiversity, including the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan, the National Fisheries Act (to promote ...
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ABSTRACT This article addresses the U.S. approach to managing environmental quality in estuarine ... more ABSTRACT This article addresses the U.S. approach to managing environmental quality in estuarine regions. It reviews the progress that has been achieved in managing coastal environmental quality and looks at the factors that have affected the design of coastal and estuarine management programs by examining five experiences in environmental management that have been important influences on the development of the National Estuary Program (NEP): the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC); the federal river basin commissions; the Section 208 area‐wide waste treatment planning; the federal coastal zone management program; and the Chesapeake Bay Program. These programs offer important strengths and weaknesses as models for managing estuarine environmental quality. The authors propose evaluation criteria based on the strategy, structure, and process of coastal environmental programs, which can be used to evaluate the structure and management process of contemporary coastal environmental programs such as the National Estuary Program, as well as to assess their contributions to the evolving field of coastal environmental management.
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Public perceptions of the risks and benefits of offshore oil development off the New England coas... more Public perceptions of the risks and benefits of offshore oil development off the New England coast are examined. The influence of these perceptions on state policies toward federal actions is analyzed. A distinct trend of issue identification, critical analysis, consensus building, and state or regional action is observed. Throughout this interactive process between the region and the federal government, even
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