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Senior Lecturer

mwhoward@brandeis.edu Heller  158 781-736-3794

Expertise

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

Courses

  • HS 277f - Planning and Implementation: A Primer
  • HS 279a - Planning and Implementation: Concepts and Methods
  • HS 300f - Integrated Conservation and Development

Scholarship

  • 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 9.
  • Howard, M. & Taylor, E.. "Managing Natural Assets in a Densely Populated Island Jurisdiction." Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. 2008.
  • 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.
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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. She is environmental advisor to the government's sustainable development agency for the archipelago. She coordinated the development of Colombia's first marine protected area (MPA), was advisor to the project to establish the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, and is on the team of Colombia's national climate change initiative. She is also working with the InterAmerican Development Bank on a new project to conserve marine biodiversity in the Southwestern Caribbean. Ms Howard has worked on community-based conservation projects with multi-lateral, bi-lateral, and UN agencies; international NGOs; governments; and universities.

 

Degrees

Brandeis University
M.A.

Duke University
B.A.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Cert.

Awards and Honors

  • Heller School teaching award (2007)
  • Board of directors, Mangrove Action Project (MAP) (2003)
  • Founding member, Association of Caribbean and Western Atlantic Marine Educators (1999)