Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Valuation, Institutions, and Policy in Southeast Asia

1: Introduction: Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Valuation, Institutions, and Policy in Southeast Asia.- Part I: Coastal Marine Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia: Support for Conservation Initiatives.- 2: Economic Valuation of The Philippine's Caramoan Beachscape.- 3: An Economic Analysis of Coral Reefs in the Andaman Sea of Thailand.- 4: Conservation versus Development: Valuation of Coral Reefs Questions Port Expansion Plan in Vietnam.- 5: An Economic Valuation Of Coastal Ecosystems In Phang Nga Bay, Thailand.- 6: Willingness to Pay for Whale Shark Conservation in Sorsogon, Philippines.- 7: Mobilizing Resources for Marine Turtle Conservation in Asia: A Cross-Country Perspective.- Part II: Pollution and Land Degradation.- 8: Pollution Control and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Southern Songkhla Lake, Thailand.- 9: Pollution-Induced Fish Kills in Bolinao: Effects of Excessive Aquaculture Structures and Overstocking.- 10: Reverting Disused Fishpond Lease Agreement Areas To Mangrove Forests In Region VI (Western Visayas), Philippines.- 11: Environmental Trade-offs from Coastal Reclamation: The Case of Cebu, Philippines.- Part III: Institutions and Policies in Fisheries Management.- 12: A Fishery in Transition: Impact of a Community Marine Reserve on a Coastal Fishery in Northern Mindanao, Philippines.- 13: Do Institutions Affect the Performance of Marine Protected Areas? Evidences from the Philippines.- 14: Fisheries Management Options for Visayan Sea, Philippines: The Case of Northern Iloilo.- 15: Response of Fishermen to Fishing Control Policies in Southern Songkhla Lake, Thailand: A Field Experiment.- 16: The Impacts of Artificial Reefs on the Income of Artisanal Fishers in Terengganu, Malaysia.- 17: Economic Evaluation of Implementing Minimum Legal Size on Blue Swimming Crab Fishery In Indonesia.- 18: Conclusion: What We Have Learned.- Index.

Dr. Nancy Olewiler was Director of Simon Fraser University's (SFU) School of Public Policy since its founding in 2003 until September 2014. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to the Economics department at SFU in 1990, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Queen's University in Ontario. Dr. Olewiler has held visiting positions at the University of Colorado, University of California, Berkeley, and University of New South Wales. She was Chair of SFU's Economics department from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Olewiler has held a number of positions serving many communities, locally and internationally. These include being a member the Board of Directors of BC Hydro from 2001 to 2010 and TransLink from 2008 to 2013 (where she served as its Chair from 2010 to 2013). She is a member of the National Statistics Council and Chairs the Macroeconomic Accounts Advisory Committee for Statistics Canada. Her areas of research include natural resource and environmental economics and policy, the impact of environmental regulation on the economy, and environmental tax policy. She has published in academic journals, edited books, has written two widely used textbooks, and produced numerous reports for the Canadian federal and provincial governments on a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues. From 1990 to 1995 she was Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy, Canada's leading public policy journal. Dr. Olewiler is a research mentor to the Environment and Economy Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economy Program (LACEEP).

Dr. Herminia Francisco is the Director of the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). The Program plays an important role in developing researchers' capacity to produce high quality, policy relevant studies to support improved environmental management in Southeast Asia. EEPSEA receives funding support from the International