The following resources are available either as an html link or in PDF format. The LMMA Network does not necessarily endorse the methods listed therein; we simply provide the resources for users to determine for themselves what best fits their needs.

Informative (theory and principle)

• Adaptive Management Primer
  A guide on Adaptive Management.
  
• Collaborative Learning Initiatives in Integrated Coastal Management (PDF)
  A review of networks to gain insight for coastal management practitioners to increase their potential for achievement.
  
• Fish for the Future? (PDF)
  A report on the initiation of the LMMA Network.
  
• LMMA Poster Presentation
  
• What is a Learning Portfolio?

GuideBooks (practical/"how to")

• FLMMA Community-Based Monitoring Training Guide
  

  This guide describes the process used by the Fiji Locally Managed Marine-Area (FLMMA) Network to train communities in simple biological monitoring and data presentation and to develop a biological monitoring plan for their projects.
  
  

• Fisheries Co-Management:  A Practical Handbook                                              This handbook describes the process of community-based co-management from its beginning, through implementation, to turnover to the community.  By R.S. Pomeroy and R. Rivera-Guieb.
  
  
• Fully-protected marine reserves: a guide 

  This book explains the theory behind fully-protected reserves and also acts as a practical guide. The main text of the book provides much of the background to reserves, and is supplemented by a series of case studies showing some of the most interesting reserves from around the world.  By Callum M. Roberts and Julie P. Hawkins.

  
  
• How is your MPA doing?
  A guidebook of natural and social indicators for evaluating marine protected areas management effectiveness.
  
• Is Our Project Succeeding? (PDF)
  A guide to threat reduction assessment for conservation.
  
• The LMMA Network Learning Framework
  A guide for monitoring your LMMA.
  
• Managing Marine Protected Areas: A toolkit for the Western Indian Ocean.
  From the authors of “Training for the sustainable management of Marine Protected Areas: A training manual for MPA managers” (ed, Julius Francis), this manual is a very useful guide in MPA development.
  
• Measures of Success
  A guide to designing, managing, and monitoring conservation and development projects.
  
• Participatory Coastal Resource Assessment
  A Handbook for Community Workers and Coastal Resource Managers by Jeffrey S. Walters, James Maragos, Susana Siar and Alan T. White, Coastal Resource Management Project and Silliman University Center of Excellence in Coastal Resources Management, Cebu City, Philippines, 1998.
  
• Reef Check Instruction Manual: A Guide to Reef Check Coral Reef Monitoring.
  
• Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management
  By L. Bunce, P. Townsley, R. Pomeroy, R. Pollnac, © Australian Institute of Marine Science, 2000. This manual was written for coral reef managers in developing countries to help them conduct socioeconomic assessments and develop monitoring programs in their communities.
  
• Socioeconomic Monitoring Guidelines for Coastal Managers in the Southeast Asia (SocMon)
  By Leah Bunce and Bob Pomeroy, © World Commission on Protected Areas and Australian Institute of Marine Science, 2003. These guidelines were developed to compliment the Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management by providing a simpler, more structured set of guidelines for monitoring coastal communities, which can then be tailored to site needs.

Articles of Interest

• Alternative approaches to marine management prove successful in reef conservation
  
  
• Community-based marine resource management in the South Pacific

• Harvesting Clams and Data: Involving Local Communities in Monitoring - A Case Study in Fiji
  
  
• Putting the Community in Conservation:  Chumbe Island Coral Park

• Live Rock:  A New Cash Crop for the Aquarium Trade Protects Fiji's Reefs
  
  
• Marine ecosystem appropriation in the Indo-Pacific: a case study of the live reef fish food trade.
  
• Marine reserves: long-term protection is required for full recovery of predatory fish populations.

Videos

Community Biological Monitoring Training Video now available.
To order, contact tawake_a@usp.ac.fj

LMMA Network Lessons Learned Video
To order, go to: http://www.lmmanetwork.org/Site_Page.cfm?PageID=67