Enterprise Strategies for Coastal and Marine Conservation: A Summary of Best Practices
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This summary of best practices in coastal conservation based enterprises is meant to assist coastal practitioners and local government officials who currently use, or are interested in using, enterprise as a strategy for the conservation of biological diversity in rural coastal communities and to benefit local populations and their natural environment.
Information relevant to Learning Questions:
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
- Stakeholder alignment, diversification
- Market demand, access to credit/capital
- Ownership
- Business alliances
- Technical capacity
- Benefit sharing, policies for and enforcement of resource use, biodiversity linkage
Does the enterprise lead to benefits to stakeholders?
- Increased income for participants
Do the benefits lead to positive changes in attitudes and behavior?
- Not addressed
Does a change in stakeholders’ behaviors lead to a reduction to threats to biodiversity (or restoration)?
- Not addressed
Does a reduction in threats (or restoration) lead to conservation?
- Marine ecosystems
Enterprise Types:
- Sustainably harvested fish and shellfish
- Aquaculture and mariculture
- Marine/freshwater ecotourism