Reef Manager's Guide to Fostering Community Stewardship: Helping people work together to improve the outlook for coral reefs and communities

by Paul A. Marshall, Anna Lyons, Carolyn Luder

A Reef Manager’s Guide to Fostering Community Stewardship combines theory and practical guidance to help coral reef managers harness the immense power of community stewardship as a central element of coral reef conservation and sustainable use programs. Leading experts from around the world, coordinated by Assoc Prof Paul Marshall from the Great Barrier Reef, share their decades of experience in designing and implementing coral reef stewardship programs in Australia, Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. Partners in the production of the Guide include US National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, IUCN, USAID, NOAA, TNC, University of Queensland, SymbioSeas and Reef Ecologic.

72 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

About the author

Paul Marshall is senior fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House. He has lectured worldwide and is general editor of Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Report on Freedom and Persecution. He is the author and editor of 15 other books on religion and politics, including the best-selling and award-winning Their Blood Cries Out, and Islam at the Crossroads and God and the Constitution, both published in 2002. Dr. Marshall has published many scholarly and popular articles and his writings have been translated into Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Malay, Korean, Arabic, and Chinese. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.