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The views are those of the authors who acknowledge their debt to other members of the Restoration and Remediation Working Group (RRWG) of the Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management project for ideas, information and lively discussion of reef restoration concepts, issues and techniques. We thank Richard Dodge, Andrew Heyward, Tadashi Kimura, Chou Loke Ming, Aileen Morse,
Makoto Omori, and Buki Rinkevich for their free exchange of views. We thank Marea Hatziolos, Andy Hooten, James Guest and Chris Muhando for valuable comments on the text. Finally, we thank the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific (CRISP), Eric Clua, Sandrine Job and Michel Porcher for providing details of restoration projects for the section on “Learning lessons from restoration projects.
The purpose of this section is to provide a management context to reef restoration. We assume some familiarity with what coral reefs are. A key point we make is that reef restoration should be treated as just one option within an integrated coastal management (ICM) planning
agenda for a stretch of coast. Too often, enthusiastic proponents of active restoration omit to consider the wider context and factors outside their control which may jeopardise their efforts.
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