Browsing by Subject "Belize"
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A Preliminary Assessment of the Blue Carbon Capacity of Belizean Mangroves with Ecological, Economic, and Policy Perspectives
(2015-04-24)In recent years, mangrove forests have experienced increasing deforestation rates in Belize due to coastal development. Our client, the Belize Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development, wants to determine ... -
DOES PROTECTION CULTIVATE MORE RESILIENT REEFS? : ASSESSNG THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF BELIZE’S NO-TAKE MANAGEMENT ZONES ON THE POST-DISTURBANCE RECOVERY OF CORALS
(2010-04-30)Coral reefs have emerged as one of the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate variation and change. Under the current trends, disturbance events are likely to increase in rate and severity. It is critically important to ... -
Managing the Gladden Spit Marine Reserve: An Analysis of the Whale Shark Dive Tourism Industry in Placencia, Belize
(2005)The Gladden Spit Marine Reserve is co-managed by Friends of Nature and the Government of Belize. A section of the reserve, known as the Whale Shark Zone, is managed for whale shark dive tourism as part of an initiative to ... -
Marine Managed Areas in the Human Cultural Context: An assessment of the 'socio-cultural reality' associated with MMA establishment in Belize
(2009-04-23)Across the globe, marine managed area (MMA) designation has been traditionally justified primarily from a biological perspective, the goals of which have focused on conserving species and habitats critical for maintaining ... -
Use of Site Occupancy Modeling to Delineate a Jaguar Corridor in Southern Belize
(2010-04-28)This analysis, a component of Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, incorporated 184 interviews with local hunters and farmers in a site occupancy framework to determine the likelihood of jaguar and jaguar prey occupancy ... -
Who Gets the Fish in Belize?: Evaluating Seafood Access in an Urban Area
(2010-04-30)Evaluating Local Access to Seafood in Urban Belize City By Roberto Pott May 2010 Small developing countries such as Belize face the dilemma of choosing between using their fisheries catch domestically to feed ...
