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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