Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat

Part 1. The Climate Change Challenge to Coral Reefs that will require Conservation Theory and Practice to Evolve; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Climate Change, Coral Bleaching and Other Threats; Chapter 3. Status of Coral Reefs; Chapter 4. Approaches to Coral Reef Management ; Part 2: Case Studies; Chapter 5: The Case of The Florida Reef Tract: Bureaucracies, Participation, and Managing Novel Ecosystems ; Chapter 6. How communities are organizing to contest major infrastructure projects that may damage coral reefs: The Port of Miami Case; Chapter 7. How communities are organizing to contest major infrastructure projects that damage coral reefs: The Cayman Islands Case; Chapter 8: Cultural Services of Reefs: The Case of the Cayman Islands MPAs and What Would Be Lost With A Major Infrastructure Project; Chapter 9: How Coral Reefs are Placed on the Decision-making Agenda ; Chapter 10: Summary of case studies and the changes to stakeholder-driven, participatory management of reefs; Chapter 11: Call to Action: Participation and Managing Reefs Under Global Change; Appendix Chapter 5; Appendix Chapter 6; Appendix Chapter 7; Appendix Chapter 8; Appendix Chapter 9

 The 11 chapters of this interesting work provide a focused, informative, and engaging discussion of how climatic factors and other environmental issues are promoting the decline of coral reefs and how necessary the restoration and maintenance of coral reefs are, preeminently for the health of the world’s oceans. -- Choice