The Great Barrier Reef: keeping it great : a 25 year strategic plan for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 1994-2019

Abstract

This Strategic Plan for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area is in itself a model and a demonstration of the importance of the process. It sets out very clear objectives, in both the short and long term. It deals with what is needed now to safeguard the Area from immediate threats, addresses how resources should be managed, research undertaken, the interests of indigenous peoples safeguarded, and the public informed about the Area, its importance, and ways in which they can safeguard its future. All these kinds of action are stitched together in what is called integrated planning.