Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat

Kelly Dunning is an assistant professor and Director of the Conservation Governance Lab at Auburn University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an expert on global coral reef management. Ryan Williamson is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and is an expert in congressional politics including policy, procedure, and elections.Amanda Alva graduated with her MS from the Conservation Governance Lab at Auburn University studying coral reef policy in the United States. She received her BSc in Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a Marine & Coastal Social Scientist at NOAA for CSS Inc. Sabine Bailey graduated with her MS from the Conservation Governance Lab at Auburn University studying coral reef management. She received her BSc in Biology from McGill University. She is currently an NOAA Digital Coast Fellow working with The Nature Conservancy and the Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesDaniel Morris graduated with his MS from Conservation Governance Lab at Auburn University studying coral reef management. He received his BA from Auburn University in Political Science. He is currently a federal Presidential Management Fellow.Kasen Wally graduated with his MS from the Conservation Governance Lab at Auburn University studying coral reef management in Florida. He received his BSc in Environmental Science from Western Carolina University. He is currently a Coastal Resiliency Specialist with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

• Part 1. The Climate Change Challenge to Coral Reefs that will require Conservation Theory and Practice to Evolve; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and Other Threats; Chapter 3. Status of Coral Reefs; Chapter 4. Approaches to Coral Reef Management ; Part 2: Case Studies; Chapter 5: The Case of The Florida Reef Tract: Bureaucracies, Participation, and Managing Novel Ecosystems ; Chapter 6. How communities are organizing to contest major infrastructure projects that may damage coral reefs: The Port of Miami Case; Chapter 7. How communities are organizing to contest major infrastructure projects that damage coral reefs: The Cayman Islands Case; Chapter 8: Cultural Services of Reefs: The Case of the Cayman Islands MPAs and What Would Be Lost With A Major Infrastructure Project; Chapter 9: How Coral Reefs are Placed on the Decision-making Agenda ; Chapter 10: Summary of case studies and the changes to stakeholder-driven, participatory management of reefs; Chapter 11: Call to Action: Participation and Managing Reefs Under Global Change; Appendix Chapter 5; Appendix Chapter 6; Appendix Chapter 7; Appendix Chapter 8; Appendix Chapter 9

The 11 chapters of this interesting work provide a focused, informative, and engaging discussion of how climatic factors and other environmental issues are promoting the decline of coral reefs and how necessary the restoration and maintenance of coral reefs are, preeminently for the health of the world’s oceans. -- Choice