The Analysis of Governance Responses to Ecosystem Change

This Guide describes conceptual frameworks and methods for examining the governance dimensions of ecosystem change in coastal regions. It offers a step-by-step process for assembling a baseline of trends in the condition and use of the ecosystem or ecosystems in a specific place (a stretch of coastline, an estuary and its watershed, a protected area) and how the existing governance system has responded to the issues produced by those trends and issues.