Matthew, an Ecological Catastrophe: Marine Protected Areas of the Grand Sud

Presented five months after Hurricane Matthew crossed the southern peninsula, this deck treats the storm as an ecological event and then turns to the institutional question that follows from it. The marine protected areas of the Grand Sud are the subject of the second half, and the presentation ends not with recommendations but with open questions, which is what makes it useful: what land tenure regime and what coastal regulation actually apply inside a protected area, and should such areas be managed one by one, grouped together, or served by a single mobile technical capacity covering the region. Those are the same unresolved questions the CIAT's 2015 coastal workshop raised about the shoreline generally, arriving here in the specific form of protected-area administration. Authored jointly by an academic ecologist, the Macaya park management unit and UNEP.