The evaluation model for coral reef restoration from management perspective for ensuring marine tourism sustainability

Lee Chia Bin, . and Nurul Haqimin Mohd Salleh, . and Loke Keng Bin, . The evaluation model for coral reef restoration from management perspective for ensuring marine tourism sustainability. pp. 93-104. ISSN 2672-7226

Coral reefs are proved to be valuable resources for resorts and ecotourism operators that cater to eco-tourists. It is also having commercial values on recreation and tourism industries where local communities and tourism operators gain the revenues from tourists through scuba diving snorkelling hotels and related businesses to coral reefs ecosystem. Nowadays coral reefs have been seriously damaged due to many activities especially by human. This critical situation has led to the growing concern of coral reefs restoration and conservation. However based on literatures no evaluation has been conducted towards the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration. Thus the objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration by selecting Perhentian Island as a focus area. For evaluating the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Evidential Reasoning (ER) methods are employed for prioritizing and aggregating the judgements under fuzzy environments. The result has shown that under waters temperature for coral gardening is the most important factor to ensure the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration. In addition the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration in Perhentian Island is assessed as 67. This model provides a useful decision-making tool to several related agencies such as Department of Marine Park Malaysia and Reef Check Malaysia for conducting the effectiveness evaluation on coral reefs restoration.

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Abstract

Coral reefs are proved to be valuable resources for resorts and ecotourism operators that cater to eco-tourists. It is also having commercial values on recreation and tourism industries where local communities and tourism operators gain the revenues from tourists through scuba diving snorkelling hotels and related businesses to coral reefs ecosystem. Nowadays coral reefs have been seriously damaged due to many activities especially by human. This critical situation has led to the growing concern of coral reefs restoration and conservation. However based on literatures no evaluation has been conducted towards the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration. Thus the objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration by selecting Perhentian Island as a focus area. For evaluating the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Evidential Reasoning (ER) methods are employed for prioritizing and aggregating the judgements under fuzzy environments. The result has shown that under waters temperature for coral gardening is the most important factor to ensure the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration. In addition the effectiveness of coral reefs restoration in Perhentian Island is assessed as 67. This model provides a useful decision-making tool to several related agencies such as Department of Marine Park Malaysia and Reef Check Malaysia for conducting the effectiveness evaluation on coral reefs restoration.

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Coral reefs
AGROVOC Term:	Rehabilitation of natural resources
AGROVOC Term:	Evaluation
AGROVOC Term:	Models
AGROVOC Term:	Environmental management
AGROVOC Term:	Environmental water temperature
AGROVOC Term:	Sustainability
AGROVOC Term:	Tourism
Depositing User:	Mr. AFANDI ABDUL MALEK
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 00:54
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8817

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