Abstract

A number of socio-economic assessments and monitoring programmes have been implemented at coastal management sites and communities throughout the Caribbean as components of Global Socio-economic Monitoring Initiative for Coastal Management (SocMon) projects implemented by the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Goals and objectives for assessment and monitoring have focused on differing socio-economic aspects of coastal communities and coastal management sites such as MPAs including collection of baseline data; informing MPA and fisheries management and planning; promoting the use of socio-economic data in fisheries and MPA management; developing socio-economic profiles of fisheries; and enhancing the management capacity of stakeholders. This paper describes the process used to statistically examine data from nineteen individual SocMon project sites collected from 2005 to 2013 in order to build a socio-economic picture of coastal management sites and communities in the English-speaking Caribbean. This will be useful in developing a baseline of regional socio-economic conditions from which future changes could be measured.

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