Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of the Practice in International Development Management, and Associate Director, MA in Sustainable International Development

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Planning and implementation, environmental issues, community participation, protected areas, small island sustainable development.

Profile

Marion Howard lived in the San Andres Archipelago, western Caribbean, for more than 25 years, where she worked with Colombia's national environment system. For 16 years she served as advisor to the government's sustainable development agency for the archipelago, Coralina. She coordinated development of Colombia's first marine protected area (the Seaflower MPA), led the planning process to establish the UNESCO Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, and was on the team of Colombia's national climate change adaptation program. Most recently she has been working with the InterAmerican Development Bank on a project to conserve marine biodiversity in the Southwestern Caribbean and with Colombia's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on a project to implement climate change adaptation measures on the Caribbean coast. Ms Howard has worked on community-based conservation and coastal/marine research projects with multilateral, bilateral, and UN agencies; international NGOs; governments; and universities.

Awards and Honors

Heller School teaching award (2007)

President, Board of Directors, Mangrove Action Project (MAP) (2003)

Courses Taught

HS	259f	Topics in Sustainable Development
HS	279a	Planning and Implementation: Concepts and Methods
HS	300f	Integrated Conservation and Development
HS	337f	Advanced Planning & Implementation: Issues in the Field
HS	800g	Proseminar
HS	801g	Proseminar

Scholarship

Taylor, E., Baine, M., Killmer, A. & Howard, M.. "Seaflower marine protected area: Governance for sustainable development." Marine Policy http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.023i. De Santo, E., Jones, P., Qiu W. and Clifton, J., eds (2013). (forthcoming)

Howard, M. & Taylor, E.. "San Andres, Colombia." Extreme Heritage Management: The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands. Ed. Baldacchino, G.. New York: Berghahn Press, 2012. Chapter 11: 218-245.

Howard, M.. Adaptation to increase resilience of Colombia’s Caribbean Coast to climate change impacts. Bogotá and Frankfurt. Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and KfW Development Bank: 2012.

Taylor, E., Baine, M., Howard, M., & Killmer, A.. "Seaflower Marine Protected Area – Governance Analysis." Marine Protected Areas: Getting the balance right. vol. 2 Ed. Jones, P., Qiu, W., & DeSanto, E.. Nairobi: UNEP, 2011. 87-96.

Taylor, E., Bent, O., & Howard, M.. "Linking Watershed Management and Coral Reef Conservation in the Western Caribbean." Effective Catchment Management and Coral Reef Conservation: Best Practice Case Studies. Ed. Wilkinson, C. & Brodie, J.. Townsville: Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 2011. Case Study 11: 60-61.

Taylor, E., Howard, M., & Baine, M.. Colombia’s Nomination of the Seaflower Marine Protected Area for Inscription on the World Heritage List. Paris, UNESCO: 2011.

Bhavsar, A., Shepard, D., Suaya, J., Mafowosofo, M., Hurley, C. & Howard, M.. "A private hospital-based study assessing knowledge, attitudes, practices and costs associated with dengue illness in Surat, India." Dengue Bulletin 34. (2010): 54-64.

Howard, M. & Newball, R.. "Mapping Community-Based Protected Areas: A model for sustainable development, cultural, and environmental protection." United Nations Ninth Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. New York. April 2010.

Howard, M. & Taylor, E.. "Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Seaflower Marine Protected Area, San Andres Archipelago, Colombia: A Community-Based Approach." Building Resilience to Climate Change: Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field. Ed. Andrade Perez, A., Herrera Fernandez, B., & Cazzolla Gatti, R.. Gland: IUCN, 2010. 98-115.

Howard, M.. Indigenous People’s Plan for the Raizal People of the San Andres Archipelago, Colombia: Inclusion in the Integrated National Adaptation Program. World Bank/GEF: 2010.

Howard, M., Moreno, M., Garcia, M., & Salaman, P.. "Colombia: The Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina." An Inventory of Breeding Seabirds of the Caribbean. Ed. Bradley, P. & Norton, R.. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. Chapter 26: 225-231.

Howard, M., Taylor, E., Baine, M., & Nicholson, D.. "Integrating poverty alleviation with marine conservation in the Seaflower Marine Protected Area, San Andres Archipelago, Colombia." International Marine Conservation Congress, 2009.

Baine, M., Howard, M., Kerr, S., Edgar, G., & Toral, V.. "Coastal and marine resource management in the Galapagos Islands and the Archipelago of San Andres: Issues, problems and opportunities." Ocean and Coastal Management 50. 3-4 (2007): 148-173.

Baine, M., Howard, M., Taylor, E., James, J., Velasco, A., Grandas, Y. & Hartnoll, R.. "The development of management options for the black land crab (Gecarcinus ruricola) catchery in the San Andres Archipelago, Colombia." Ocean and Coastal Management 50. 7 (2007): 564-589.

Mow, J., Taylor, E., Howard, M., Baine, M., Connolly, E., & Chiquillo, M.. "Collaborative planning and management of the San Andres Archipelago's coastal and marine resources." Ocean and Coastal Management 50. 3-4 (2007): 209-222.

Howard, M., et al.. "The community-based zoning process to establish the Seaflower Marine Protected Area, San Andres Archipelago, Colombia." Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, 2006.

Howard, M.. "Evaluation report Seaflower Biosphere Reserve implementation: The first five years." www.unesco.org/csi/smis/siv/Caribbean/San_actEnvEd_Seaflower2000-2005%20.pdf (2006)

Howard, M., Taylor, E., Connolly, E., & van't Hof, T.. "Applying socio-economic information to MPA planning: Seaflower Marine Protected Area, San Andres Archipelago, Colombia." MPA World Congress, 2005.

Howard, M., Pizarro, V., & Mow, J.. "Ethnic and Biological Diversity within the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve." The International Journal of Island Affairs 13. Special Issue (2004): 109-114.

Howard, M., Connolly, E., Taylor, E., & Mow, J.. "Community-based Development of Multiple-Use Marine Protected Areas: Promoting Stewardship and Sharing Responsibility for Conservation in the San Andres Archipelago, Colombia." Gulf and Caribbean Research 14. 2 (2003): 155-162.

Mow, J., Howard, M., Delgado, C., & Tabet, S.. "Promoting Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve." Prospects, Quarterly Review of Environmental Education 33. 3 (2003): 303-312.

Howard, M., Taylor, E. , Connolly, E., Howard, F., McCormick, C., & Newball, R.. "Preliminary Plan for marine protected areas in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve: a community-based approach." Global Environment Facility, Ciego de Avila, Cuba. 2002.

Howard, M.. "Sustainable Tourism Planning for Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands: The Importance of Carrying Capacity Analysis." Tourism 49. 4 (2001): 285-298.