Obura2009-IUCN Congress report - Resilience sessions

Table of Contents
Executive Summary – Priorities for Action...................................................................1
Resilience as a framework for action.................................................................................... 1
Priorities for science............................................................................................................... 1
Priorities for management...................................................................................................... 2
Priorities for policy ................................................................................................................. 2
IUCN Resolution 4.080. Mobilizing action to build resilience .....................................4
Workshop discussions and findings.............................................................................6
Assessing reef resilience .......................................................................................................6
A resilience framework for assessment................................................................................ 6
Drivers of resilience .............................................................................................................. 7
Indicators of resilience .......................................................................................................... 9
Monitoring resilience...........................................................................................................10
Social resilience and adaptation......................................................................................... 11
Enhancing resilience-based management ......................................................................... 12
Building resilience-based policy ......................................................................................... 13
Resilience, adaptive management and adaptation to climate change ............................... 13
Expert consensus statements............................................................................................. 14
Socio-economic valuation and costs of adaptation ............................................................ 14
Communicating the message ............................................................................................. 14
International conventions and institutions........................................................................... 15
Priorities for policy development......................................................................................... 15
Workshop abstracts......................................................................................................17
Coral reef resilience – coping with change through diversity ......................................... 17
Coral reef ecosystem resilience depends on complexity. Enric Sala................................. 17
Why monitor resilience and what are the challenges in developing a protocol?
Paul Marshall.................................................................................................................... 18
The IUCN-CCCR Coral Reef Resilience Assessment method. David Obura &
Gabriel Grimsditch............................................................................................................ 20
Indicators of resilience in a coral community. David Obura ............................................... 21
Algae as Drivers and Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience. Robert S. Steneck .................. 22
Monitoring Functional Groups of Herbivorous Reef Fishes as Indicators of Coral
Reef Resilience. Alison Green ......................................................................................... 22
Building social resilience into marine conservation. Nadine A. Marshall ........................... 24
Managing for Coral Reef Resilience: Recent Developments and New Directions ......... 26
Resilience-based Marine Protected Area Design in Kimbe Bay, Papua New
Guinea - Alison Green...................................................................................................... 26
Improving Wastewater Management to Increase Reef Resilience in Bonaire -
Ramon De Leon ............................................................................................................... 26
Resilience-based management: training, implementation, and new tools.
Stephanie Wear................................................................................................................ 28
Building resilience concepts into policy – sustaining environments and people
through change ..................................................................................................................... 29
Resilient Policy, Resilient Reefs: How Do We Get There? Jennifer Hoffman.................... 29
Converting socio-political momentum into conservation action in the Great Barrier
Reef. Paul Marshall.......................................................................................................... 31
Making climate science relevant to policy: The UK Climate report card. Dan
Laffoley............................................................................................................................. 32
Red Listing Coral Species: Strategies and opportunities to strengthen marine
conservation policy and action in the Coral Triangle Region. Kent Carpenter ................ 33
Wilderness area protection and sustainable financing in a Small Island Developing
State – Kiribati. Greg Stone ............................................................................................. 35
An approach to building the human dimension into marine conservation. Nadine
Marshall............................................................................................................................ 36
The Honolulu Declaration on ocean acidification and coral reef management.
Lynne Hale ....................................................................................................................... 37