International
Tropical
Marine
Ecosystems
Management
Symposium

This session covers economic valuation and its application at the site/local level and hopes to provoke ideas on how to lay the foundations for valuing markets, making them operational, and paying for coastal and marine ecosystem services. The opportunities and constraints of paying for ecosystem services are discussed, along with incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries.

• Recommendations
• Cases Studies
  • Economic Valuation and Cultural Roles of Marine Protected Areas
  • Enhancing the Application of Economic Valuation to Coastal Resource Management at the National and Regional Levels

• Reports
  • Economic Valuation and its Application at the Site / Local Level
  • Economic Valuation and its Application at the Regional / National Level

• Workshop presentations*
  • Valuing Recreational and Conservation Benefits of Coral Reefs: The Case of Bolinao, Philippines
  • Determining Compensation for Coral Reef Injuries: Overview of Habitat Equivalency Analysis Approach
  • Enhancing the Application of Economic Valuation of Coastal Resource Management at the National and Regional Levels
  • Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs in the Caribbean
  • Participatory Economic Valuation
  • Economic Valuation and Cultural Roles of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)