Assessment of Stakeholder’s Perceptions of the Value of Coral Reef Ecosystem Services: The Case of Gili Matra Marine Tourism Park

Ratu Fathia Rahmadyani (), Paul Dargusch and Luky Adrianto
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Ratu Fathia Rahmadyani: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Paul Dargusch: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Luky Adrianto: Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: Ecosystem services is a concept broadly applicable to describe environmental interrelations with human activities. It serves as a practical instrument for assessing the success of resource management in natural reserves, with the goals of maximising conservation effort and achieving sustainable use. The Gili Matra Marine Tourism Park (GMMTP) has been extensively researched as a marine protected area centred on anthropocentric activities of marine-based tourism. However, there still a lack of research to address the full scope of ecosystem services derived from the coral reef ecosystem. From an ecosystem services viewpoint, the study’s objectives were to define the services obtained from the GMMTP’s coral reef ecosystem, relevant stakeholders, and how their utilisation activities were posed as drivers of changes that reflect the flow of services and the possible implications of these. Marine tourism, capture fisheries, and land-based activities were identified as services impacting upon the regulating and supporting services, with the resultant compounding externalities potentially degrading the services’ utilisation value. Although there have been certain changes in community behaviour that may reduce the intensity of the impacts, the present prediction of service flow still confirms the previous statement. The results provided insight into current resources management implications on the state of ecosystem services. Overall, failing to recognise the causes that drives the interaction of these ecosystem services will increase the risk of incurring unexpected trade-offs, restricting the potential for resources’ synergies, and eventually causing drastic and irreversible changes in the provision of coral reef ecosystem services in the GMMTP.

Keywords: ecosystem services; coral reef; MPA; stakeholder; resources management; social perception; Gili Matra (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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