A Management Strategy Evaluation framework developed for the inshore Great Barrier Reef to assess the impacts of human uses and management decisions on biodiversity. The project, completed between 2011 and 2014, involved stakeholder engagement and qualitative assessment of management strategies against objectives. It was conducted by CSIRO and aggregated by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Modeling the impacts of fisheries management decisions on inshore biodiversity based on the described MSE framework.
- Assessing socio-economic drivers of ecosystem change in the Great Barrier Reef region as mentioned in the project description.
- Evaluating the costs and benefits of different monitoring and assessment strategies for adaptive management.
- Informing stakeholder objectives through the elicitation process described in the project's scoping phase.
Strengths
- Project is explicitly stated as complete, indicating a finalized framework.
- Focuses on a specific, high-value ecosystem: the inshore Great Barrier Reef.
- Framework incorporates three major adaptive management components: monitoring, assessment, and decision processes.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data files are listed as PNG and HTML, suggesting the primary outputs may be reports or figures rather than raw structured data.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Project-based development involving stakeholder elicitation, data gathering, and qualitative modeling.
- Time Range
- 2011-2014
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-14 10:46:32.604804; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Inshore Great Barrier Reef, Australia