Catchments and Corals - Terrestrial Runoff to the Great Barrier Reef -

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The principles of cross-sectoral involvement and administration involving all sectors and working across a range of scales are all parts of what is now regularly referred to as integrated coastal management (ICM). There are three broad approaches to ICM:

An integrated institutional mechanism, where one organisation is responsible for most, or all, aspects of coastal management. For example, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, in Australia, is responsible for a wide range of tasks including zoning activities on the Reef, formulating a plan for the area, running education programmes, and developing, interpreting and applying comprehensive research and monitoring programmes covering not just the Reef but the water catchments on the mainland that drain into the area. But it is limited in some ways. It does not manage fisheries on the Reef, and has no executive authority for managing the way land is used on the mainland - though it can influence it.

An institutionally co-ordinated approach, where one institution co-ordinates the plans and work of others. For example in the Chesapeake Bay Programme, in the United States, the federal Environmental Protection Agency co-ordinates other federal and state bodies. The programme aims at reducing pollution of the Bay by nutrients, and at recovering the abundance, diversity and productivity of its natural resources.

Institutional co-ordination achieved through consultation within a legislative framework. In Zanzibar, for example, the Ministry of Lands and the Environment has taken the lead in developing a holistic strategy for protecting the coasts. This is based on working closely with other ministries on partnerships with local communities and provides the framework for managing natural resources and other activities. Some Mediterranean countries, developed and developing, are also applying this type of ICM at a national, provincial or local level.

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Catchments and Corals - Terrestrial Runoff to the Great Barrier Reef ( BOOK )

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Furnas, M.

Description

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest coral reef ecosystem in the world. The health and productivity of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem is influenced by the nutrients and sediment running off the adjacent catchment. Since 1850, human activities in the catchments bordering the Great Barrier Reef have changed sediment and nutrient runoff to the reef. Catchments and Corals provides the first comprehensive description of the state of the Great Barrier Reef catchment, modern levels of runoff to the reef, and the influence of runoff on coastal reef ecosystems.

Keywords

CATCHMENT;

WATERSHED;

RIVER BASIN;

GREAT BARRIER REEF;

RUNOFF

Geography Keywords

AUSTRALIA;

GREAT BARRIER REEF

Content Language(s)

English

Type of Book

Book

Purchase Info URL

http://www.aims.gov.au/p ... rals.html

Publisher

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

Publication Location

Townsville (Australia)

Publication Date

2003

Hard Copy Availability

AIMS Bookshop, Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, TOWNSVILLE, 4810, Australia, email: bookshop@aims.gov.au; fax: 61 7 47716138 (from other countries)

Reference Info

Number of Pages

334 pp.

Reference Numbers

ISBN	0-642-32223-6

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