The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority commissioned Marc Hockings and Brian Gilligan to write an independent report to inform the "assessment of the existing measures to protect and manage the ecosystem within that (Great Barrier Reef) region" (otherwise referred to as an assessment of management effectiveness). This report was incorporated into Chapter 6 of the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009.

The report by Hockings and Gilligan examined the range of activities identified as key elements of the existing measures to protect and manage the Great Barrier Reef.  These ranged in scale from localised issues that affect only a small proportion of the total area (such as defence) to others which have implications across all or most regions (such as climate change and coastal development). No attempts have been made to weight these components and performance assessments need to be interpreted in the context of these scale differences.

• Assessment of Management Effectiveness for the 2009 Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report. Download the full report [2.2Mb pdf]

Related information

• Chapter 6, Existing Protection and Management (Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009)
  
• Executive Summary and Framework for the Report (by Hockings and Gilligan)
• Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report