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SERIES 134STUDIES AND PERSPECTIVES ECLAC SUBREGIONALHEADQUARTERSFOR THE CARIBBEAN Responding to sargassuminfluxes through integrativeand adaptive natural resourcemanagement approachesin Caribbean SIDS An exploratory framework Artie DubrieArista Katwaroo Thank you for your interest inthis ECLAC publication Please register if you would like to receive information on our editorialproducts and activities. When you register, you may specify your particularareas of interest and you will gain access to our products in other formats. Click on the link below for our social networks andother channels for accessing our publications: https://bit.ly/m/CEPAL Responding tosargassuminfluxes through integrativeand adaptive natural resourcemanagement approachesinCaribbean SIDS Anexploratoryframework Artie DubrieArista Katwaroo This document was prepared by Artie Dubrie, Coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit ofthe subregional headquarters for the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean(ECLAC) and Arista Katwaroo, ResearchAssistant, with the support of Esther Chong Ling, ProgrammeManagement Assistant. Thanks are owed to the Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification, Green and Blue Economy ofBarbados, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development and the National EmergencyManagement Organisation (NEMO) of Saint Lucia, the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries and the Ministry ofPlanning, Economic Affairs and Development of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Department of the Environment,Planning and Housing of Guadeloupe; as well as to the Association of Caribbean States, the Basel ConventionRegional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean, the Caribbean Regional FisheriesMechanism, the University of the West Indies, the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute andtheOrganisation of Eastern Caribbean States for the provision of data used in the preparation of this study.Deanna Albert, consultant with the Unit, provided support for data collection, interviews and data analysis. The United Nations and the countries it represents assume no responsibility for the content of links to external sitesin this publication. Mention of any firm names and commercial products or services does not imply endorsement by the United Nationsor the countries it represents. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization or the countries it represents. The boundaries and names shown on the maps included in this publication do not imply official acceptance orendorsement by the United Nations. United Nations publicationISSN: 1728-5445 (electronic version)ISSN: 1727-9917 (print version)LC/TS.2025/101LC/CAR/TS.2025/7Distribution: LCopyright © United Nations, 2025All rights reservedPrinted at United Nations, SantiagoS.2500547[E] This publication should be cited as: Dubrie, A. and Katwaroo, A. (2025). Responding to sargassum influxes through integrativeand adaptive natural resource management approaches in Caribbean SIDS: an exploratory framework.Studies and Perspectivesseries-ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean(134) (LC/TS.2025/101-LC/CAR/TS.2025/7). Economic Commission forLatin America and the Caribbean. Applications for authorization to reproduce this work in whole or in part should be sent to the Economic Commission forLatinAmerica and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Documents and Publications Division, publicaciones.cepal@un.org. Member Statesand their governmental institutions may reproduce this work without priorauthorization butare requested to mention thesource and to inform ECLAC of such reproduction. Content Abstract................................................................................................................................................7Introduction........................................................................................................................................9I.Methodology and structure of the study................................................................................13II.An integrated and adaptive management approach ofsargassum:a framework for examination..................................................................................................15A.Applying an integrated and adaptive natural resources managementapproach to sargassum.....................................................................................................16B.Roles ofnational stakeholders...........................................................................................16C.Intergovernmental agreements providing possible guidelinesfor the management of sargassum....................................................................................171.Global Agreements..................................................