FORCE Future of reef in a changing environment: An ecosystem approach to manage Caribbean coral reefs in the face of climate change
El futuro de los arrecifes en un entorno cambiante: un enfoque ecosistémico para gestionar los arrecifes de coral del Caribe frente al cambio climático
Brief Description:
The overall aim is to provide coral reef managers with a toolbox of sustainable management practices that minimise the loss of coral reef health and biodiversity. An ecosystem approach is taken that explicitly links the health of the ecosystem with the livelihoods of dependent communities, and identifies the governance structures needed to implement sustainable development. Project outcomes are reached in four steps. First, a series of experimental, observational and modelling studies are carried out to understand both the ultimate and proximate drivers of reef health and therefore identify the chief causes of reef degradation. Second, the project assembles a toolbox of management measures and extends their scope where new research can significantly improve their efficacy. Tools were developed to assist with a diverse range of issues ranging from incorporating climate change impacts into the design of marine reserve networks, identifying separate fish stocks just from morphometric measurements and providing livelihoods diversification frameworks to regional organisations.
El objetivo general es brindar a los gestores de los arrecifes de coral una caja de herramientas de prácticas de gestión sostenible que minimicen la pérdida de la salud y la biodiversidad de los arrecifes de coral. Se adopta un enfoque ecosistemico que vincula explícitamente la salud del ecosistema con los medios de vida de las comunidades dependientes e identifica las estructuras de gobernanza necesarias para implementar el desarrollo sostenible. Los resultados del proyecto se alcanzan en cuatro pasos. En primer lugar, se llevan a cabo una serie de estudios experimentales, observaciones y modelaje para comprender los factores impulsores de la salud de los arrecifes y, por lo tanto, identificar las causas principales de su degradación. En segundo lugar, el proyecto compila una caja de herramientas de medidas de gestión y amplía su alcance donde las nuevas investigaciones pueden mejorar significativamente su eficacia. Se desarrollaron herramientas para ayudar con una amplia gama de cuestiones que van desde la incorporación de los impactos del cambio climático en el diseño de redes de reservas marinas, la identificación de poblaciones de peces separadas solo a partir de mediciones morfométricas y la provisión de marcos de diversificación de los medios de vida a las organizaciones regionales.
Project Profile Manager: Peter Mumby
Contact Email: p.j.mumby@exeter.ac.uk Contact Phone:
Partners:
Grant (USD):
$11,413,005.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$0.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
AnguillaAntigua and BarbudaBarbadosBelizeBonaireCayman IslandsCosta RicaCuraçaoDominican RepublicHondurasJamaicaPanamaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesTurks and Caicos Islands
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.6. Enhance the capacity within and among arrangements to undertake and mainstream lessons learned and findings from monitoring,science and research in regional, sub-regional and national decision-making
1.10. Establish and/or enhance the data and information quality and collection and management capacity of the regional, sub-regional and nationalgovernance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment, including through the establishment of public-private partnerships
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
3.7. Facilitate the preparation of data and information products and the uptake of monitoring and research outputs by (sub)regional and national science-policy interfaces
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.6. Establish and/or enhance the institutional structure and capacity of (sub-)regional and national arrangements for implementing management and conservation measures for reef ecosystems
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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Anguilla 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Barbados 
Belize 
Bonaire 
Cayman Islands 
Costa Rica 
Curaçao 
Dominican Republic 
Honduras 
Jamaica 
Panama 
Saint Kitts and Nevis 
Saint Lucia 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Turks and Caicos Islands 
