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Background Reading: Innovative tools for valuing ecosystems, sustaining business and promoting change - Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services (CCRES) project

17 Apr 2018

The Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services (CCRES) project is working to ensure the long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems with models, tools and knowledge products to support planning.

The tools have been developed by multi-disciplinary teams that include scientists, policy-makers, businesses and other experts from a range of fields. They are the result of collaboration between leading centres of discovery, learning and engagement in North America, Australia and the East-Asia Pacific region, and specifically alongside partners in Indonesia and the Philippines.

  • Website: http://ccres.net/
CCRES Tools   
This guide outlines the suite of CCRES’s innovative tools that demonstrate the link between healthy coral reef, seagrass and mangrove ecosystems, and community wellbeing. These tools include policy briefs; software programs, models and application...