 | Managing Coral Reefs: An Ecological and Institutional Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia Managing Coral Reefs examines Indonesia's and Malaysia's pathways to implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), focusing specifically on how regional and national policies in Southeast Asia have fared when implementing the Aichi Targets of the CBD. Kelly Heber Dunning examines CBD implementation through marine protected areas (MPAs) for coral reefs in Indonesia and Malaysia. While Indonesia uses a co-managed framework, whereby villages and governments share power, to implement its MPAs, Malaysia uses a top-down network of federally managed marine parks. Using mixed methods through interviews and surveys as well as coral reef ecology surveys conducted over a year of fieldwork, Dunning argues that co-managed systems are the current best practice for implementing the CBD's Aichi Targets in tropical developing countries. Kelly Heber Dunning is the Coastal Training Program Coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute and at the Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, USA. A PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dunning's research on Southeast Asian coral reefs was funded through a United States Fulbright Award. She has also received other prestigious awards including the MIT Presidential Fellowship and the Caroll L. Wilson Fellowship. |
