Climate change is driving shifts in environmental conditions that, together with other human
pressures, are impacting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Individuals, communities, and industries in the
GBR catchment depend directly or indirectly on the GBR for ecosystem goods and services. These take
the form of direct economic benefits (including commercial activities such as tourism and fishing),
social services (including recreational activities and cultural linkages) and environmental services
(including shoreline protection from barrier reefs and mangrove stands).This is Chapter 23 of Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef: a vulnerability assessment. The entire book can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/11017/13
