How Great is the Great Barrier Reef! Tourists' Knowledge and Understanding of the World Heritage Status of the Great Barrier Reef

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianna Moscardo ◽  
David Green ◽  
Tanya Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
The World

The influence of a season of extreme wet weather events on exposure of the World Heritage Area Great Barrier Reef to pesticides

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 1495-1507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kennedy ◽  
Michelle Devlin ◽  
Christie Bentley ◽  
Kristie Lee-Chue ◽  
Chris Paxman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Wet Weather ◽  
World Heritage Area ◽  
Heritage Area

scholarly journals Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton ◽  
Libby Lester
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘… if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign, which ran through the 1960s and 1970s and highlighted threats from rapid industrialization and a nation riding a resources boom. Nevertheless, in recent years, the Reef has teetered on being named a ‘World Heritage Site in Danger’, with similar economic conditions driving its deterioration. This article juxtaposes recent media activism to protect the Reef against the earlier campaign in order to compare and better understand how these campaigns engaged publics and policy makers by representing and communicating threats, and concludes by considering their capacity to influence long-term conservation policy.

Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Coral Reef System

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is recognised and appreciated worldwide as a unique environment and for this reason has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Reef is economically-important to Queensland and Australia, supporting substantial tourism and fishing industries. Management of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure conservation of its natural qualities in perpetuity is achieved through the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The maintenance of water quality to protect the reef and the industries which depend on it is becoming an increasingly important management issue requiring better knowledge and possibly new standards of treatment and discharge.

Great Barrier Reef

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Kingsford ◽  
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Disease ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Experts

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is 344 400 square kilometres in size and is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. Contemporary pressing issues such as climate change, coral bleaching, coral disease and the challenges of coral reef fisheries are also discussed. In addition,the book includes a field guide that will help people to identify the common animals and plants on the reef, then to delve into the book to learn more about the roles the biota play. Beautifully illustrated and with contributions from 33 international experts, The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a baseline text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Winner of a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for 2009.

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