Coggan, Anthea, Jarvis, Diane, Graham, Victoria, Pert, Petina, and De Valck, Jeremy (2024) The Sustainable usE And Benefits fOR MariNE (SEABORNE) project: An overarching report of objectives, methods, key findings and reflections. Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Project, for the Great Barrier Reef. CSIRO, Australia. Report. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

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Abstract

The Sustainable usE And Benefits fOR mariNE (SEABORNE) project was one of three human dimensions projects funded by RIMReP following a 2020 assessment of monitoring priorities and gaps (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, 2021) . Focussing on existing available data, the objective of the SEABORNE project was to improve understanding about who is using the Great Barrier Reef (GBR; the Reef), how the Reef is being used and the benefits enjoyed from this use. The project involved consolidation of a wide range of existing, if somewhat dispersed, socio-economic datasets, to enable the assessment of how such data can be used to estimate the economic value of human uses of (and services provided by) the GBR, to thereby assist planning and decision-making about Reef uses and management and enable the evaluation of progress made towards the Reef 2050 Plan (Australian Government, 2021) objective ‘Uses of the Reef are ecologically sustainable as the system changes, in turn sustaining economic and social benefits’, as measured in part by the indicator: Reef benefits are sustained and maintained within the ecologically sustainable limits of the whole system as it changes for Reef-dependent users and industries: recreational and tourism visitors; recreational and commercial fisheries; and research (uses). Due to the time and resources available, the SEABORNE project focussed analysis on the spatial areas of the Cairns Area Plan of Management (CAPOM) and the Keppels Capricorn Bunkers (KCB) (Figure E1). The SEABORNE project unfolded in two parts. Part 1: developed and applied a conceptual framework referred to as an Ecosystem Service Value Chain (ESVC) to assess the status and quality of existing data and to provide a framework through which this data could be used to generate information about who is using the Reef, for what use and for what economic benefit. Due to the linear nature of the ESVC, this part focussed on non-First Nations peoples’ uses of the Reef. Descriptions of all datasets which aligned to the ESVCs have also been made available through the SEABORNE SYNTHESEAS Shiny app accessible through the SEABORNE webpage: SEABORNE (csiro.au). Part 2: focussed exclusively on working with First Nations groups to understand the diverse values and meanings that Indigenous peoples attach to the Reef, and their ways of caring for the Reef. It also sought to understand how data, knowledge and information are currently collected as well as Indigenous peoples’ aspirations for monitoring. This report provides an overarching view of the project, methods and key results

Item ID:	83778
Item Type:	Report (Report)
Keywords:	GBR; ecosystem services and benefits
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Copyright Information:	© Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 2024. To the extent permitted by law, all rights are reserved and no part of this publication covered by copyright may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means except with the written permission of CSIRO.
Funders:	Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF)
Projects and Grants:	GBRF Project SEABORNE
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2024 23:49
FoR Codes:	38 ECONOMICS > 3801 Applied economics > 380105 Environment and resource economics @ 100%
SEO Codes:	15 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 1505 Microeconomics > 150599 Microeconomics not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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