Toni Cannard

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | CSIRO · Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research

Conventional systems of government have not been very successful in resolving coastal management problems. This lack of progress is partially attributable to inadequate representation in governance processes of the variety of knowledges present on the coast. In particular there has been a struggle to engage effectively with climate science and its...

The scoping of requirements and evaluation of suitability of CWQM technology involved: (1) definition of the priority observational requirements to support the development and operation of eReefs models; (2) evaluation of the range of environmental conditions that occur in Great Barrier Reef (GBR) fresh, estuarine and marine waters; (3) a prioritis...

Increasingly, social considerations are having an influence on fisheries policy as well as day-to-day management decision making. Social objectives, unlike economic or conservation objectives, are often poorly defined in fisheries policy, providing substantial leeway for managers to develop management plans in response to the perceived importance o...

Predicting who may leave a fishery is an important consideration when designing capacity reduction programs to enhance both ecological and economic sustainability. In this paper, the relationship between satisfaction and the desire to exit a fishery is examined for the Queensland East Coast Trawl fishery. Income from fishing, and changes in income...

Natural resource management has long recognised that the multi-objective nature of management is important, but has struggled to operationalise this into quantitative, measurable objectives for functional use in management. Operationalising broader ecological and social objectives has been particularly problematic. In fisheries management, the focu...

Gladstone Healthy Harbour

There is increasing interest in protecting, restoring and creating ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems (BCE; mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses) to sequester atmospheric CO2-C and thereby contribute to climate change mitigation. While a growing number of countries aspire to report greenhouse gas emission and carbon sequestration changes from these ecosys...

Over the past 50 years, the diversity of fisheries types being actively managed has changed from mainly data-rich, industrial sectors to more socially, economically, and environmentally complex multispecies and multisector fisheries. Accompanying this change has been a broadening of management objectives to include social and economic consideration...

Policies aiming to preserve vegetated coastal ecosystems (VCE; tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrasses) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions require national assessments of blue carbon resources. Here, we present organic carbon (C) storage in VCE across Australian climate regions and estimate potential annual CO2 emission benefits of VCE conservati...

The use of biodiversity offsets as a means to mitigate environmental damage whilst also accommodating for urban developer interests is becoming an increasingly popular policy mechanism. However, biodiversity offsets are not without their criticisms, and financial offsets have gained a reputation for allowing developers to buy their way out of respo...

Ecosystem based fisheries management (EBFM) provides a framework to achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability in fisheries. However, developing harvest strategies to achieve these multiple objectives is complex. This is even more so in multi-sector multi-species fisheries. In our study, we develop such harvest strategies for the multi-...

Blue carbon policy supports carbon sequestration whilst also conserving our remaining seagrass meadows. The complex biogeochemical processes within the sediment of seagrass meadows are responsible for the longevity of the stored carbon. Carbon stock and accumulation rates are controlled by the interaction of hydrodynamic, geochemical and biotic pro...

Oceans affect nearly all components of our lives. Eight of the world’s 10 largest cities are located on the coast and over half the world’s population lives within 200 km of the coast, and around one-quarter within 100 km. Nearly nine in 10 Australians live within 50 km of the coast. Australia is connected to the rest of the world through a global...

People have been using marine resources for millennia for food, transportation, recreation and cultural purposes (Chapter 6). Advances in technology over recent decades have made it technically and economically feasible to access and use a wider range of living and non-living marine resources. Current annual ocean economic activity globally is esti...

An interdisciplinary research project investigating the practical strengths, limits and challenges of the current Logan City Council environmental offsets program has been designed to encapsulate the triple bottom line. The workshop provided researchers with a space to explain the triple bottom line concept, offset requirements (in theory and pract...

Abstract: The Slacks Creek Catchment Restoration is a collaborative project combined a triple bottom line approach (social, environmental, economic) while adopting best practices of integrated coastal zone management. The combination of integrating water quality monitoring with observational coastal ecology and community involvement was designed ov...

This project combined a triple bottom line approach while adopting best practices of integrated coastal zone management. The combination of integrating water quality monitoring with observational coastal ecology and community involvement was designed overall to achieve better waterways and catchment management. The project contributes to the South...

Report cards have become an increasingly popular way to measure the current status and the progress towards meeting environmental and ecosystem health goals. Most report cards focus on the biophysical components of the system, however including the social and economic implications of ecosystem management provides a richer social‐ecological system u...

Mangrove forests, tidal marshes, and seagrass ecosystems provide economic, environmental and social benefits for Australia with additional benefits being possible through their ability to capture and store carbon. A participatory stakeholder and expert workshop was conducted in Canberra on 28 July 2016 to scope potential for the inclusion of coasta...

Report cards are increasingly used to provide ongoing snap-shots of progress towards specific ecosystem health goals, particularly in coastal regions where planners need to balance competing demands for coastal resources from a range of industries. While most previous report cards focus on the biophysical components of the system, there is a growin...

Demographic information of the survey sample and BBN sensitivity analysis. (PDF)

Survey instruments used in the study. (PDF)

An economic survey of the commercial operators currently active in the Queensland Coral Reef Fin-Fish Fishery has been carried out, as part of a research project aimed at evaluating alternative management options for this fishery.This paper presents the background analysis used as a basis to develop the sampling design for this survey. The backgrou...

Management across the catchment-coast-ocean continuum remains one of the greatest Natural Resource Management (NRM) challenges still to be addressed in Australia. To do so requires an underpinning Coastal Knowledge platform that integrates observational (e.g. monitoring and remote sensing) data with modeling of catchment, estuarine and coastal proc...

Bush Stone-curlews (Burhinus grallarius) occur in high densities on Coochiemudlo Island in southern Moreton Bay and other offshore islands. This contrasts with the situation on the adjacent mainland and in southern Australia. In order to start to understand why Bush Stone-curlews are more abundant on islands, we examined the trend in community coun...

Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) is an internationally recognised approach used in fisheries management. Its use to assess adaptive management in fisheries includes specific heuristics aiming at simulating how managers learn from previous decisions and changing contexts. Managers correspond – most of the time - to boat captains, fleet operators...

Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) is a way of informing stakeholders of the likely consequences, costs and benefits of choosing particular management approaches. It uses an iterative approach to assist stakeholders to formulate objectives and make trade-offs between social, economic and environmental outcomes. The aim is to identify management s...

A software application has been created to assist water resource managers in South East Queensland to use Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) techniques as a part of their own planning process. The tool leverages the existing background knowledge and strategic skill of these managers, and enables them to perform rapid development and evaluation of...

Evaluating management strategies to improve water quality in coastal waterways requires flexible models that can be used in computer simulations to link management actions to changes in waterways. These models need to capture the important relationships between management actions and consequent effects on water quality from upper catchments to estu...

South East Queensland (SEQ) is the fastest growing population in Australia. With the projected population growth from nearly 3 million in 2010 to approximately 4 million in 2026, changes in land-use (e.g. from rural to urban) and construction of additional infrastructure are inevitable. More people in the region will also increase demands for water...

Assessment of mine waste disposal on benthos and pelagic food webs at Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. Final report to Lihir Gold

Akerlof & Kranton propose a way to capture the power of identity with traditional economic analysis. The writing is lucid and clear and opens the way to wide readership by avoiding the use of economic jargon. The book’s stated aim is to introduce a way of making sense of the effect social contexts have on beliefs (or non-economic motives). Identity...