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the effective management of the parks.
The Director works closely in partnership with First Nations people, government agencies, marine park users and stakeholders to deliver a range of management actions. This partnership approach is essential to managing the marine parks and is outlined further in Section 3.3 of
this plan.
The values in the South-east Marine Parks Network (South-east Network) are subject to a range of cumulative impacts, including from broadscale pressures such as climate change. The Director acknowledges that park management may have limited direct influence on these broadscale pressures and that some ecological change may be unavoidable in the long term. The protection afforded by marine parks aims to increase resilience. In some cases, it may be possible and appropriate to implement park management actions at a localised level to help resist these ecological changes, improve ecosystem resilience or direct ecological change to a more desirable state. However, many interventions will not be feasible in deep, remote, offshore marine environments. In these cases, park management may focus on monitoring the impacts of broadscale pressures on marine park values to contribute to national responses.
When values are in good condition, they best support social and economic benefits – primarily by users who access and enjoy the natural resources in the parks. However, if levels of use are too high, or activities too damaging, these activities can become pressures and park values are at risk of becoming degraded. The condition of values can also be affected by a range of external biophysical and social and economic drivers (for example, oceanic currents, fuel prices, fish market prices) which are typically unable to be influenced by park management actions. However, these variables are important context to be aware of when trying to assess the effectiveness of different management approaches.
Figure 3.1 Australian Marine Park management model. The model shows the relationships between management actions, pressures, values, benefits and external drivers.
Parks Australia manages the Australian Marine Parks using an adaptive approach, consistent with Australia's IUCN reserve management principles (Section 4.1). Effective and adaptive management is a systematic process for continual improvement that involves ongoing monitoring of management actions, evaluating their effectiveness in achieving stated objectives and adjusting management accordingly. Section 3.5 of this plan describes how the Director will monitor, evaluate and report on this plan to enable adaptive management of the marine parks.

3.2           Ways of working
In managing the South-east Network, the Director and Parks Australia staff will strive to be:

      * Respectful – of the Traditional Owners of the sea, First Nations people, marine park users, stakeholders and other government agencies

      * Collaborative – seeking to co-design management actions and systems wherever possible and manage in consultation with First