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Volunteer and Sea Turtle Tourism: A Case Study of a Social-Ecological Conservation Project in Matapalo Beach, Costa Rica
(2012-09-13)
University of Washington Abstract Volunteer and Sea Turtle Tourism: A Case Study of a Social-Ecological Conservation Project in Matapalo Beach, Costa Rica Meredith Leigh Barnard Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Marc L. Miller School of Marine and Environmental Affairs All species of sea turtles are on the IUCN ...
Addressing Cross-scale Governance in the Alignment of Marine Fisheries Harvest and Conservation Objectives within a U.S. Community
(2012-09-13)
Marine EBM in the U.S. calls for moving from sector-based governance to integrated governance. Integration at large scales reduces the potential for collective action because transaction costs may exceed the benefits of participation in an integrated regime. Community-based approaches have been recognized and promoted ...
Factors Affecting Local Permit Ownership in Bristol Bay and an Evaluation of the BBEDC Permit Loan Program: An Analysis of Based on Interviews with Local Residents
(2012-09-13)
Since the first Bristol Bay Limited Entry salmon permits were issued in 1975, many have been sold to non-local residents, resulting in declining numbers of permits held by local residents and eroding the economic base for many Bristol Bay communities. The primary goal for this thesis research project is to gain insights about ...
Shellfish Aquaculture in Puget Sound in Light of Washington's Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
(2012-09-13)
The shellfish growing industry in the Puget Sound region of Washington State greatly depends on the health of the marine waters, and is therefore considerably invested in coastal management issues and protection of state waters. The industry has overcome many challenges throughout its existence in Washington, and is currently ...
Assessing the feasibility of expanding dive tourism to Danajon Bank, Philippines
(2012-09-13)
Danajon Bank is the only double barrier reef in the Philippines. Found off the northern coast of Bohol Island, central Philippines, Danajon expands over an area of 272 km². The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, a Filipino nonprofit, is implementing a project to develop a management plan for Danajon Bank. One ...
Community Perceptions of Scuba Dive Tourism Development in Bien Unido, Bohol Island, Philippines.
(2012-09-13)
The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation (CCE Foundation), a Philippine environmental organization, in collaboration with Region 7 municipality leaders from Cebu, Leyte, and Bohol, as well as various financial donors, is striving to improve the marine resource management of the Outer Danajon Bank in the Philippines. ...
Learning to Share the Fish: A Multiple Case Study on the Use of Market-Based Mechanisms in U.S. Federal Fisheries Management
(2012-09-13)
The problems of subtractability and low excludability often lead to overexploitation of common pool resources such as fisheries. Market-based mechanisms, or catch shares, are a collection of policy innovations increasingly employed in fisheries management to address a variety of policy problems including overfishing and ...
Coastal Resource Use, Management, and Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines
(2012-09-13)
This analysis of coastal resource perceptions and behaviors demonstrates that while there are documented successes throughout the Philippines in community-based integrated coastal management projects, opportunities and challenges remain to fully realize the benefits identified by local communities. Using survey data from 40 ...
Angling for Insight: Examining the Recreational Fishing Community's Knowledge, Perceptions, Practices, and Preferences to Inform Rockfish Recovery Planning in Puget Sound, Washington
(2012-09-13)
An ever-growing body of literature highlights the importance of understanding user groups and stakeholders in conjunction with biological information to manage and recover threatened or endangered species. Stakeholder support is especially important to manage less charismatic or "little known" species. A representative survey ...
Institutional Feasibility of Scaling Up to Ecosystem-Based Management: A case study in the Danajon Bank, Philippines
(2012-09-13)
Ecosystem based management (EBM) has been widely embraced as a guiding management framework without substantial critical evaluation of institutional utility. EBM is attractive because it promises to deliver a variety of services including holistic policy and laws, as well as scaled-up and streamlined management that is ...