Marine Protected Areas and Coastal Communities
A Resource Site for Caribbean Coastal Resource Managers
photos: Nick Drayton |
This Project Spotlight provides tools and resources to help Marine
Protected Area (MPA) managers and others working on MPAs in the Caribbean
better understand and respond to the needs of coastal communities.
Many of the materials included here came out of a series of research
projects carried out in the region through the United
Kingdom Department for International Development’s Natural Resource
Systems Programme. Those projects examined the linkages between
coastal natural resource management, sustainable human development,
and poverty reduction in the Caribbean, and a few looked specifically
at MPAs and coastal communities.
What's here?
The resources on this page consist largely of products of NRSP-funded
research work in the Caribbean. There is a brief description of each
project, along with a list of documents that are available for viewing
and downloading. These documents include:
The page also provides web links to other sites that contain information
on additional work on the subject of MPAs and coastal communities,
both within the Caribbean and internationally. We very much welcome
feedback on this site, as we are anxious to make it as useful as possible
to users, and particularly to persons involved in aspects of MPA planning
and management in the Caribbean. We have therefore included a feedback
form, which we would encourage you to complete and return.
NRSP- funded research:Caribbean Marine Protected Areas and opportunities for pro-poor management
Institutional and technical options for improving coastal livelihoods
Requirements for developing successful co-management in the Caribbean
Finding Common Ground: Marine Protected Areas and Fishing Communities
Trinidad's coastal zone: Whose
responsibility?
Integrated coastal zone management:
Benefitting people?
CANARI Policy Brief #5Marine protected areas and sustainable livelihoods (pdf, 225KB)
Other research and publicationsConflict in environmental conservation: a Jamaican study
Research is now underway to understand how reliance on tourism affects
the relationships between MPAs and local resource users, with a specific
case study focusing on conflicts between fishing and tourism in and
around marine protected areas in Jamaica. The project is being carried out
by a team of
social scientists led by Dr. James Carrier from Oxford Brookes University
in the United Kingdom.
For more information, contact James Carrier.
Biography, ecology, political economy: seascape and conflict in Jamaica
This chapter from LANDSCAPE, MEMORY AND HISTORY: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, is reproduced with kind permission of Pluto Press.
Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management (pdf, 14.6MB)
Socioeconomic Monitoring Guidelines for Coastal Managers in the Caribbean (pdf, 4.4MB)
Poverty & Reefs, a two-volume report from UNESCO
AnnouncementsPeople and the Sea III: New Directions in Coastal and Maritime Studies- international conference in Amsterdam, July 2005 .
This web page has been made possible through a Natural Resource
Systems Programme project that aims to disseminate the results of
previous research in order to contribute to improved coastal resource
use strategies in the Caribbean. The project is a joint initiative
of CANARI, the Caribbean Conservation Association, and MRAG, Ltd.
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