Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: Progress and Challenges

Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: Progress and Challenges – Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2016, 19: 169-181

The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is an ambitious marine conservation and governance program engaging six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia. It has attracted significant international support, including an investment of over $40 million from the United States through the five-year U.S. Coral Triangle Initiative Support Program.

In this paper, the authors examine outcomes of the USCTI documented through the Learning Project (LP) – a collaborative, interdisciplinary project capturing lessons learned from USCTI and CTI-CFF.

The co-design process and collaborative spirit of the LP allowed it to collect a large body of information from a diverse range of informants in a relatively short time frame, providing important documentation of the achievements and challenges of USCTI.

Written by Patrick Christie, Diana M. Pietri, Todd C. Stevenson, Richard Pollnac, Maurice Knight, and Alan T. White

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