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Opportunities and constraints for implementing integrated land-sea management on islands
Biodiversity Conservation

Albert, Simon

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Jupiter, Stacy

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Klein, Carissa J.

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Mangubhai, Sangeeta

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Nelson, Joanna

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Teneva, Lida

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Tulloch, Vivitskaia J.

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Watson, James E.M.

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Wenger, Amelia

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White, Alan T.

2017
Despite a growing body of literature on integrated land–sea management (ILSM), very little critical assessment has been conducted in order to evaluate ILSM in practice on island systems. Here we develop indicators for assessing 10 integrated island management principles and evaluate the performance of planning and implementation in four island ILSM projects from the tropical Pacific across different governance structures. We find that where customary governance is still strongly respected and enabled through national legislation, ILSM in practice can be very effective at restricting access and use according to fluctuations in resource availability. However, decision-making under customary governance systems may be vulnerable to mismanagement. Governmentled ILSM processes have the potential to design management actions that address the spatial scale of ecosystem processes and threats within the context of national policy and legislation, but may not fully capture broad stakeholder interests, and implementation may be poorly coordinated across highly dispersed island archipelagos. Private sector partnerships offer unique opportunities for resourcing island ILSM, although these are highly likely to be geared towards private sector interests that may change in the future and no longer align with community and/or national objectives. We identify consistent challenges that arise during island ILSM planning and implementation and offer recommendations for improvement.
SPREP-Tok : Issue 32. March, 2017.
SPREP Publications
Available Online
2017
A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.
Climate Change Matters. Issue 54, April 2017.
SPREP Publications, Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

2017
April issue of CCM
Toward defining the Blue Economy: Practical lessons from pacific ocean governance
Biodiversity Conservation

Keen, Meg R.

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Schwarz, Anne-Maree

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Wini-Simeon, Lysa

2017
Governments and regional agencies of the Pacific Islands are strengthening their commitment to sustainable oceans management through proactive policies and programs. The Blue Economy concept is increasingly being invoked, yet clarity on definitions and implementation steps remain vague. This paper reviews reports, academic literature and regional speeches to develop a Blue Economy conceptual framework which is then applied to three case studies from the fisheries sector – small scale fisheries, urban fish markets and onshore tuna processing. The cases illustrate an imbalance in attention paid to key components of the Blue Economy and missed opportunities for integration across scales, time and stakeholders with a few noteworthy exceptions. Issues of power, agency and gender remain weakly addressed even in the most recent initiatives. While clearly defining components of the Blue Economy provides a valuable tool for assessing coverage of key elements of sustainable ocean management, it is less obvious that the new label, Blue Economy, significantly advances practice beyond existing sustainable development frameworks. A proliferation in terms adds more complexity to an already challenging management space. Nevertheless, the conceptual framework is useful for structuring evaluations of practice, and helping to reveal missing ingredients necessary for the sustainable development of oceans.
SPC Fisheries Address Book/Répertoire de péches de la CPS
Biodiversity Conservation

Pacific Community (SPC)

2017
Fisheries address book by the Division of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems & SPC
SPREP-Tok : Issue 31. February, 2017.
SPREP Publications
Available Online
2017
A monthly e-bulletin of activities and assistance from the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to its member countries.
PacWaste News - Issue 6, January 2017
Biodiversity Conservation, Waste Management and Pollution Control
Available Online

PacWaste

2017
PacWaste News Issue 6 on Pacific Healthcare, e-waste, asbestos waste management and atoll waste management updates and latest events in the Pacific.
SPREP Factsheet - What is SPREP?
SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online

SPREP

2017
Factsheet on SPREP, what it is and who its member states are, etc.
SPREP Annual Report 2016 = Rapport Annuel du PROE 2016.
SPREP Publications, Key SPREP Documents
Available Online
2017
This Annual Report notes the major achievements of SPREP in supporting Pacific island countries and territories to address issues relating to: biodiversity and ecosystem management, waste management and pollution and environmental monitoring and governance
Kiribati National Invasive Species Strategy and Action Plan 2015 - 2020
SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation, BRB
Available Online
2016
The revision and updating of Kiribati National Invasive Species Strategies and Action Plan KNISSAP 2015-2020 is genuinely the outcome of collaborative effort by ECD as an implementing agency through the technical guidance of SPREP and UNEP. We would sincerely like to thank GEF PAS for its ongoing and prompt financial support for Kiribati through the regional initiative and provision for reviewing and updating this strategic and action plan. MELAD is grateful to acknowledge Dr Ray Pierce of the EcoOceania Pty Ltd in Australia for facilitation, guidance and drafting of this document through consultative workshops with Invasive Alien Species Committee-IASC at Tarawa and Kiritimati. We sincerely grateful for other recent IAS feasibility studies and management of existing invasive species from other external institutions including CEPF, PII, Packard, NZAID, NZDOC, Darwin/RSPB, and Dr Gruber, that provide baseline information and flagged the importance of this document. We would express gratitude to MELAD and Linnix’s admin for the great administrative supports during course of this consultative process. In addition, we thank our line ministries and representative in providing intense legislative information for strenuous enforcement and management and particularly engage and exercise the workplan in different expertise and technical areas. Last but not least, we are tremendously grateful to all IASC during three-day workshops (details in Appendix 3) for their contributions which are helpful insight practical action plan matrix for the next 5 years. Without contributions and collaborative works, this document would not be an achievable one.

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