This web-based toolkit provides decision-makers and researchers and interested members of the public with an overview of the ways in which economic (market-based) instruments and policy can be used in the marine environment to incentivise private sector adaptation to climate change.  The toolkit outlines a number of potential adaptation options in marine environment under the following four broad categories: (1) fisheries management, (2) conservation management, (3) institutional arrangement, and (4) adaptation research 

Outline of the toolkit:

1. Fisheries management:  This section provides examples of economic instruments that have been used extensively in fisheries management. These instruments have a potential to contribute to building the resilience of both marine resource users and the fish stocks to climate change.

2. Conservation management:  This section discribes examples of economic instruments being used in a broader natural resource/environmental management for conservation context (“conservation management”), and we outline their application to the marine environment.

3. Institutional arrangement:  This section provides examples of instruments that have proven to be useful for strengthening institutional resilience to climate change adaptation.

4. Adaptation research: This section provides examples of climate change adaptation research, and address the need for social and economic studies. 

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The Marine Adaptation Network’s web-based Markets Toolkit has been complemented with a published Markets Toolkit Information Sheet which outlines the economic instruments in adaptation strategies for the marine environment under four broad categories: fisheries management, conservation management, institutional arrangements, and adaptation research. Please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you would like copies of this Information Sheet for distribution.

Theme Leader
A/Prof Neil Holbrook is Convenor of the Adaptation Research Network for Marine Biodiversity and Resources; Associate Professor of Climatology and Climate Change at the University of Tasmania; Associate Editor of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal and past Associate Editor of Journal of Climate [2006-2008] and Executive Secretary of the International Commission on Climate of IAMAS/IUGG. Neil is an international expert in the regional- to large-scale ocean and climate dynamics of the South Pacific, oceanic Rossby waves, climate predictability, extremes and climate change risks. He is interested in the complex feedbacks in climate change science, impacts and adaptation.


Co-theme Leader
Dr Paul Marshall is Director of the Climate Change Group in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. He leads national and international initiatives to understand climate vulnerability of coral reef systems and provide adaptation guidance for conservation practitioners and resource-dependent industries and communities. He is particularly interested in integrating knowledge to support practical adaptation measures in tropical marine systems.

Theme Leader
Dr Alistair Hobday is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. His research spans a range of topics, including spatial management and migration of large pelagic species, environmental influences on marine species, and the impacts of climate change on marine resources. He leads the Marine Climate Impacts area within the CSIRO Climate Adaptation National Research Flagship, and has been co-editor of two recent reports on the impacts of climate change on (i) fisheries and aquaculture, and (ii) Australian marine life. He is interested in developing methods to enhance human and biological adaptation as a partial solution to climate change.

Co-theme Leader
A/Prof Stewart Frusher is the program leader of Sustainable Fisheries at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute.  His research interests have lead him to explore new methods and techniques to estimate key fisheries parameters that can be used to ensure sustainability.  As co-theme leader for the Network he is fulfilling his interest in climate change impacts and adaptation on marine fisheries and ecosystems.

Theme Leader
Prof Tim Smith is the Director of the Sustainability Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast.  His research interests lie in the area of sustainability science, coastal management, social and institutional dimensions of climate change, adaptive capacity and community engagement. His role as Communities Theme Leader of the Network incorporate all aspects of his research interest.




Co-theme Leader
Dr Melissa Nursey-Bray (University of Tasmania - Australian Maritime College) is a lecturer at the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. Her research foci is in investigating how communities can participate in environmental decision making. Her current work includes development of risk assessment tools for local government so as to build adaptive capacity, development of curriculum and training packages in climate change adaptation for professionals and various projects that focus on how to build social-ecological resilience within Indigenous and non Indigenous fisheries. She is also Director of the Social Science for Climate Change Research Network (SSCCRN).