About the Authors

Nadine Marshall

nadine.marshall@csiro.au

Affiliations CSIRO Land and Water, ATSIP Building, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, College of Environmental and Marine Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

Neil Adger

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Adger, Simon Attwood, Christopher Cvitanovic, Sarah Park

Affiliation Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive Exeter, United Kingdom

Simon Attwood

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Adger, Simon Attwood, Christopher Cvitanovic, Sarah Park

Affiliations Biodiversity International, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom

Katrina Brown

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Charles Crissman

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation World Fish Center, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia

Christopher Cvitanovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Adger, Simon Attwood, Christopher Cvitanovic, Sarah Park

Affiliation Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia

Cassandra De Young

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organisation, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome, Italy

Margaret Gooch

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Craig James

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia

Sabine Jessen

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Dave Johnson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of the Environment, Canberra, Australia

Paul Marshall

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

Sarah Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Adger, Simon Attwood, Christopher Cvitanovic, Sarah Park

Affiliations School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom, School of international Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom

Dave Wachenfeld

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Damian Wrigley

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of the Environment, Canberra, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NM NA KB C. Cvitanovic CJ PM SP. Data curation: NM. Funding acquisition: NM. Investigation: NM. Methodology: NM NA KB C. Cvitanovic CJ PM. Project administration: NM CJ. Resources: CJ. Validation: NM NA KB C. Cvitanovic CJ PM SP. Writing – original draft: NM CA KB C. Cvitanovic CJ PM SP. Writing – review & editing: NM NA SA KB C. Crissman C. Cvitanovic CDY MG CJ SJ DJ PM SP D. Wachenfeld D. Wrigley.