climate change and community-based management

2007-03-12 Thread Kai N. Lee
Thanks to Willett for an interesting redirection. I don't really see why climate change makes community-based management irrelevant, however. The building of social capital that would plausibly result from the strengthening of community-based management might, indeed, be an important step

Re: coral reefs and community-based management

2007-03-12 Thread willett
Kai, Good heavens, I did not mean to say anything against community-based management--I'm a believer. I was only saying that for a student whose priority was to save coral reefs (further specification: in the mid-latitudes, where most coral reefs are), any and all other management

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread willett
Larry, Caldera and Wickett do not give a scenario that posits burning all fossil fuel. It's a graph through time. Pick your estimate of when you think we're going to stop increasing atmospheric CO2, and read off pH. (Stop increasing means something over 80% reduction in emissions

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Maniates
Thank you so much, Willett, for sharing all this with us, and for taking the time to clarify these potential misunderstandings. I'm sure that I speak for the list as a whole when I say that I find your occasional postings to be enormously helpful and provocative. Yours, Michael Michael

RE: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread Wil Burns
Another person to contact in this context is Dr. Nancy Grumet Prouty at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She has worked extensively with reef projects in Belize: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wil Dr. Wil Burns Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law Santa Clara University School of Law 500 El

RE: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread jeremy firestone
You also could try Daniel Suman, at RSMAS, University of Miami, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil Burns Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:42 AM To: 'Global Environmental Education' Cc: 'Kai N. Lee' Subject:

RE: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread Cristina Balboa
Your student may want to check out the work of Robert Pomeroy (UConn) and Richard Pollnac (URI) (both collectively and individually), and, of course, IUCN's working group on Poverty and Environment within CEESP (http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/) . As for potential case studies, I usually point

Re: Community-based management of coral reef resources

2007-03-12 Thread Radoslav Dimitrov
Nancy Knowlton is one of the premier coral reef scientists and very willing to talk to political scientists. It has been a long time since I interviewed her but I am sure you can Google her for contact info. Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science

Re: coral reefs and community-based management

2007-03-12 Thread Christopher A. Thoms
This sort of thing is an issue for community based conservation and always makes me wonder about the locus of sustainability and the potential disconnect between knowledge/information and action. That is, if we take a systems perspective and recognize the need for feedback in making

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2007-03-12 Thread Robert Darst
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