ICRI

ITMEMS 3
Global Problems, Local Solutions
Cozumel, Mexico
16-20 October 2006

Themes and Workshops

Case studies and presentations are presently being identified for use as discussion materials for each workshop. If you are interested in submitting a case study or presentation for use to stimulate discussion and illustrate important experiences and lessons for a particular theme / workshop, please contact the workshop organizing group members directly, cc workshop@itmems.org. The word limit per case study is 2000 words.

Thirteen themes have so far been proposed for discussion at ITMEMS 3, through an on-line consultation with the coral reef management community and partners hosted on the ICRIForum.

Each theme is being developed for presentation at ITMEMS 3 by an organizing group, comprising volunteer experts / practitioners from a wide range of geographical locations and disciplines. The organizing groups are responsible for designing and facilitating up to four 3-hour workshops focused on key issues relevant to each theme.

The thirteen themes for discussion are:

NumberTheme
1 Building resilience into coral reef management

Workshops:

  1. Integrating resilience into MPA design
    Contact: Lizzy McLeod (emcleod@tnc.org)

  2. Management during mass coral bleaching events
    Contact: Paul Marshall (paulma@gbrmpa.gov.au) and Naneng Setiasih (nsetiasih@wallacea.wwf.or.id)

  3. Adapting coral reef management in the face of climate change (part I)
    Contact: Heidi Schuttenberg (heidi.schuttenberg@jcu.edu.au) and Colleen Corrigan (ccorrigan@tnc.org)

  4. Adapting coral reef management in the face of climate change (part II)
    Contact: David Obura (dobura@cordioea.org), Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (oveh@uq.edu.au) Billy Causey (billy.causey@noaa.gov).

2 Disaster Management and Restoration

Workshops:

  1. Prevention and Reduction of the Danger Posed by Natural Disasters
    Contact: Margarita Astralaga, RAMSAR (astralaga@ramsar.org) or Billy Causey, Regional Superintendent, Southeast Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region, National Marine Sanctuary Program (billy.causey@noaa.gov)

  2. Strategies for Tropical Marine Ecosystem Restoration
    Contact: Margarita Astralaga, RAMSAR (astralaga@ramsar.org) or Billy Causey, Regional Superintendent, Southeast Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region, National Marine Sanctuary Program (billy.causey@noaa.gov)
3 Enforcement and investigation

Workshops:

  1. Creating International Standards for Coral Reef Investigations
    Contact: Brian Crawford, University of Rhode Island: brian@crc.uri.edu.

  2. Creating Enforceable Regulations
    Contact: Mick Bishop, GBRMPA: mick.bishop@gbrmpa.gov.au

  3. Role of Community, Volunteers & Educational Institutions
    Contact: Patricia Ramirez Romero (Mexico)

  4. Working with Multiple National Programs
    Contact: Dave Gulko, State of Hawaii: david.a.gulko@hawaii.gov
4 Fisheries and aquaculture

Workshops:

  1. Experiments in fisheries management and enforcement in the Philippines
    Lead facilitator Patrick Christie supported by Dominique Benzaken

  2. Large marine managed areas and MPAs as a fisheries management tools: Approaches to address conflict and multiple objectives
    Lead facilitators Patrick Christie and Dominique Benzaken with assistance from workshop participant

  3. Pacific Islands: Community based management and sustainable livelihoods
    Lead facilitator Dominique Benzaken supported by Patrick Christie

  4. Challenges, issues, approaches and lessons learned from around the world.
    Facilitated discussion synthesizing findings from Workshops 1-3.
5 Human Impacts on Coral Reefs and Related Ecosystems

Workshops:

  1. Anthropogenic Influences on Coral Disease (part I and II)

  2. Non-indigenous and Invasive Species

  3. Monitoring and Management of Dredging and Port Development impacts on Coral Reefs

Organizing group members:
6 Information and knowledge management

Workshops:

  1. Data Collection & Analyses

  2. Online Information & Learning Networks

Organizing group members:
7 Modelling and Decision Support

Workshops:

  1. Problems of Scale for Management

  2. SIMREEF - Modelling with Managers

  3. Impact of the Internet/Web 2 on Management (Data, Analysis, Decision, Communication)

Organizing group members:
8 Integrated and participatory strategies for coral reef conservation and sustainable use

Workshops:

  1. Building Capacities to Manage Coral Reefs and Related Ecosystems

  2. GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) lessons in community co-management and monitoring of marine resources

  3. Traditional Management into the Conservation of Coral Reefs

Organizing group members:
9 Communication, education and awareness

This theme examines the vital role of coral reef outreach, advocacy and education in catalysing social change, behaviour modification, and policy reform.

Workshops:

  1. Preparing for the International Year of the Reef 2008

  2. Workshop 2: Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing

  3. Preparing for the International Year of the Reef 2008

10 Economic valuation of marine natural resources

Workshops:

  1. Economic valuation and its application at the site/local level

  2. Economic valuation and its application at the national/regional level

  3. Economic Incentives and Payments for Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services (this is a joint workshop with the Sustainable Financing theme)
11 Sustainable tourism and marine ecosystem management

Workshops:

  1. Planning for sustainable tourism development in tropical coastal ecosystems : lessons from the Mesoamerican region - Giulia Carbone, IUCN Business and Biodiversity (facilitator)

  2. Cruise tourism and marine protected areas - Jamie Sweeting (facilitator)

  3. Tools and methods for minimizing the environmental footprint of tourism in marine protected areas - Rich Wilson, Coral Reef Alliance (facilitator)

  4. Enhancing the success of community based tourism initiatives - Giulia Carbone, IUCN Business and Biodiversity and Rich Wilson, Coral Reef Alliance (facilitators)
12 Partnerships and strategic alliances

Workshops:

  1. The role of multi sector partnerships for the conservation of Tropical Marine Ecosystems

  2. Strategic Alliances for Coral Reefs: Community-based approaches at a Landscape and Seascape Scale

Organizing group members:
13 Sustainable financing

Workshops:

  1. Strengthening System Level Protected Area Financing
    Workshop Organizer: Andrew Bovarnick, UNDP GEF: andrew.bovarnick@undp.org

  2. Trust Funds and MPA financing
    Workshop Organizer: Maria Jose Gonzalez, MAR Fund, Mexico Nature Conservation Fund: mjgonzalez@turbonett.com

  3. Site Level Finance and Business Planning
    Workshop Organizer: Scott Edwards, NPCA sedwards@NPCA.ORG

  4. Business plan formulation and development
    Workshop Organizer: Scott Edwards, NPCA sedwards@NPCA.ORG

  5. Site Level Revenue Generation Mechanisms
    Workshop organizer: Sherry Flumerfelt, CORAL: sflumerfelt@coral.org

  6. Economic Incentives and Payments for Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services (this workshop is a joint workshop with the Economic valuation of marine natural resources theme)
    Workshop Organizers: Andrew Bovarnick, UNDP GEF: andrew.bovarnick@undp.org, James Spurgeon and Toby Roxburgh