WP 9: 1st Planning meeting summary

• Clarification between WP members of common objectives:

• Workshop planning and logistics with time-line

• Planning for deliverables and publications

• Next steps

Fundación Malpelo

Refining objectives1. Fundamental definitions, concepts and development of adaptive

management mechanisms for marine eco-tourism (criteria).

• Determine marine tourism activities that favour conservation criteria and generate socio-economic alternatives.

• To determine the most appropriate criteria for evaluating the effects of marine ecotourism practices in reserves (carrying capacity and/or LAC)

• Development and testing of these models with appropriately designed and defined indicator categories

• Elaborate and implement efficient, cost-effective monitoring and evaluation protocols (integrating biophysical, socio-economic, user perceptions and governance metadata)

2. Explore cost – benefit and reciprocation mechanisms wrt conservation values - with more emphasis upon social and economic interdependencies.

• Develop and evaluate mechanisms to mitigate negative impacts, encourage positive impacts and examine interdependencies

• Assess human impacts on biological communities at specific case study sites and the implications of environmental variability (ENSO, PDO, global warming etc) upon sustainable business practices in the Equatorial Pacific.

3. Application, outreach and constructing sustainable management frameworks

Workshop schedule (and agreement in presented work plan)

Workshop 1 “CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION: CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM”

(Site TBD : Colombia January 2006): Suggestions:Planning and discussion forum: (a) to share WP member and MPA stakeholder experiences (b) develop WP strategy,

definitions and fundamental concepts (i.e. Management model definitions (LAC vs. Carrying Capacity)) (c) evaluate existing indicators and monitoring methods (d) design candidate indicators (transversal and specific for WP MPA case studies) (e) design monitoring approach/ protocols.

Workshop 2 “EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES”

(Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006): Suggestions:Evaluation forum : (a) share WP member progress and lessons learned, revisit conceptual questions to evaluate and

modify indicators and monitoring methods if necessary, (b) integration of WP criteria and data between other INCOFISH WP’s (1,5,8 etc).

Discussion forum : (b) cost benefit analysis of reciprocation of ecotourism and conservation initiatives to ensure sustainable ecosystems, coastal marine interactions (c) develop strategies to integrate WP recommendations into decision making processes within MPAs (eg. Participatory forums, conservation initiatives within the tourism sector)

Discussion forum : (d) how might we implement long term improvements in sector group perceptions w.r.t sustainable activities?

Workshop 3 “MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS”(Machalilla, Ecuador Sept 2007): Suggestions”Plenary: (a) integrating technical recommendations into management processes (b) summary of WP advances (c)

strategies to develop WP objectives beyond the life of the projectWork groups (c) continuation of publications and diffusion of project results

Planning for deliverables and publications

• Concept MS with global perspective and summaries/ comparisons between case reserves.

• Participatory processes for developing indicators with stakeholders.

• User perceptions and socio-economic considerations

• Outreach materials for Reserve managers and local communities etc.

Suggested Topics:

WP 9: Work PlanProject task Months

Start-up, Creation of a shared literature base: historical data and literature review between WP members, Presentation of WP goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders.

3 - 7

Workshop 1 (Site TBD, Colombia) January 2006):

“CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION – CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM”

9

Further integration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders (strengthened links) – local workshop sessions.

Construct and maintain a web based Ecotourism discussion and feedback group through portal?

Biophysical, socio-economic, user perception and governance data collection with MPA counterparts

Data reduction and creation of local and WP data to WP1

Analysis: first evaluation of marine ecotourism indicators for MPAs and monitoring methods

9 -18

Workshop 2 (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006). “EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES”

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Continued indicator data collection and assimilation.

Identify, explore and where feasible apply, incentives and mechanisms to improve the contributions of tourism operations towards reciprocal sustainable ecotourism and conservation.

On basis of indicator outputs design decision making tools for application by Marine Reserve Managers (interpretation)

18 - 29

Workshop 3 (Machalilla, Ecuador) Sept 2007)

“MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS”

29

Final dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community 30 - 33

WP 9: DeliverablesD9.1

Month 10

DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA :

to determine the most appropriate management models and “scope” of ecotourism

(Carrying capacity vs. LAC/VIM) for ecotourism in the 4 MPAs under study with global review of ecotourism activities outside of Equ. Pacific

D9.2

Month 25

INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND THRESHOLD VALUES :

used to monitor impact of ecotourism on selected MPA’s

D9.3

Month 30

A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES :

application and evaluation of ecotourism concepts, standards and indicators between WP’s and MPA stakeholders and managers (focus)

D9.4

Transv. with deadline schedule

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

Dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community. At least 5 publications submitted between WP members

MilestonesMonth Milestone

8 Model/s identified and concepts defined

9 Prototype indicators established

9 Presentation and exploration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders

10 Monitoring protocols first applied in case study systems

18 Data formatted for integration into INCOFISH web-portal

21 Monitoring system/ Indicator evaluation and feedback process

10 - 33 Publication and diffusion to stakeholders, administrators and academic community (transversal activity)

WP 9:Time table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 D9.1: DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA

D9.2: INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND

THRESHOLD VALUES

D9.3: A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES

D9.4: SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 D9.1: DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA

D9.2: INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND

THRESHOLD VALUES

D9.3: A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES

D9.4: SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 D9.1: DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA

D9.2: INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND

THRESHOLD VALUES

D9.3: A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES

D9.4: SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Next steps and synergies.

• First meeting to explore the relative methods (LAC criteria etc) is tonight.

• First approach to stakeholders and managers upon return to host countries

• Still need to meet with WP 8 – involvement in the second workshop & more emphasis on socio-economic issues?

• Possible synergy with WP 6 – development of decision making tools