NEW FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 673
Author(s):  
R.A. Kenchington ◽  
P. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Multiple Use Management ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Management Approaches

Historically much of the debate about the environment and development has been conducted as a series of tactical adversarial encounters from which the champions of environment or development emerge as winners or losers.The concept of sustainable development calls for a different approach in which sectors which have traditionally treated each other as opponents work together to achieve mutually acceptable and enduring outcomes. A wide range of societal goals can be met by integrating social and environmental systems through regional scale multiple use planning.This paper discusses the broad applicability of multiple use management approaches through internationally accepted models and by the example of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.The paper outlines the complementary responsibilities of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA), the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and other Commonwealth agencies and the scope for them to work with the Petroleum and other industries to develop sustainable multiple use solutions to complex resource use and conservation issues.

scholarly journals Quantifying Ship Strike Risk to Breeding Whales in a Multiple-Use Marine Park: The Great Barrier Reef

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua N. Smith ◽  
Natalie Kelly ◽  
Simon Childerhouse ◽  
Jessica V. Redfern ◽  
Thomas J. Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Ship Strike

Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Coral Reef System

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is recognised and appreciated worldwide as a unique environment and for this reason has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Reef is economically-important to Queensland and Australia, supporting substantial tourism and fishing industries. Management of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure conservation of its natural qualities in perpetuity is achieved through the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The maintenance of water quality to protect the reef and the industries which depend on it is becoming an increasingly important management issue requiring better knowledge and possibly new standards of treatment and discharge.

Aerial Surveys of Sea Turtles in the Northern Great Barrier-Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 239 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Marsh ◽  
WK Saalfeld
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Seagrass Beds ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Sea State ◽  
Water Turbidity ◽  
Density Estimates ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Specific Correction

In 1984 and 1985, during surveys designed primarily to census dugongs, six species of sea turtles were counted from the air at an overall sampling intensity of 9% over a total area of 31 288 km2 within the northern sections of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The sea turtles were not identified to species. We attempted to correct sightings for perception bias (the proportion of animals visible in the transect which are missed by observers), and to standardise for availability bias (the.proportion of animals that are invisible due to water turbidity) with survey-specific correction factors. The resultant minimum population estimate in November 1985 was (mean � s.e.) 32 187 � 2532 sea turtles at an overall density of 1.03 � 0.08 km-2, a precision of 8%. We consider this to be a gross underestimate of numbers present. Significant differences between population and density estimates obtained from repeat surveys of the same areas were accounted for by differences in Beaufort sea state and cloud cover. The analysis of covariance data suggested that we had not been successful in standardising all biases. Turtles were widely distributed throughout the Great Barrier Reef lagoon from inshore seagrass beds to mid- and outer-shelf reefs. Highest densities were observed on inshore seagrass beds and on mid-shelf reefs, particularly between Murdoch Island and Cape Melville, and in Princess Charlotte Bay. Maps of density and distribution are given. We discuss the value and limitations of this survey regime for censusing sea turtles.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Australia’s Stakeholder Engagement Efforts for MPA Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
OCTO
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Marine Park

Jon Day shares key lessons learned from stakeholder engagement efforts during the Representative Areas Program in the Great Barrier Reef, which was a key part of the comprehensive rezoning of the entire Marine Park between 1999 and 2003. As a result of this planning process, the total area of no-take zones increased from less than 5% to over one-third of the Marine Park, highlighting in large part the importance of effectively engaging stakeholders.

Cross-shelf exchanges between the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef lagoon determined from a regional-scale numerical model

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 150-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schiller ◽  
Mike Herzfeld ◽  
Richard Brinkman ◽  
Farhan Rizwi ◽  
John Andrewartha
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Reef Lagoon ◽  
Coral Sea
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