Investigation of state-society synergy in the development management of the Apo Island Marine Reserve

2017

Master's thesis Global development and planning UT505 - University of Agder 2017 Apo, a tiny island nestled at the Sulu sea of the Philippines, is world-renown to have one of the best community-managed marine protected area in the whole world. It is often used as an example by organizations such as Greenpeace to exemplify best practices of marine conservation through bottom-up approaches that enabled socioeconomic improvements of the community. As its success grew, especially through tourism, the management of the marine reserve was handed over to the national government under the National Integrated Protected Area Systems (NIPAS) act. An initial study done by Hind, Hiponia and Grey in 2010…