Marzone is a new systematic decision support planning tool that can be applied to planning land or marine areas. It uses open source software and has been dveloped by the University of Queensland's Ecology Group and is a more sofisticated version of their well known marxan tool. The paper illustrates...
The Coral Triangle Initative is a new initative in environmental ecosystem management which as officially kicked-off by 6 countries in December 2007. The paper reviews the history of the initiative (transboundary international "Peace parks" concept, bringing together other eco-regional initiatives) and points to the direction it is currently taking with...
The paper gives a brief summary of Indonesia's Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) targets and progress as of midterm of this 18 year (1998 - 2015), three Phase program. The total program cost is USD 250 million. The paper highlights COREMAP's approach to the conservation and management of...