Intan Adhi
PhD project title: Who owns the benefits,
and who bears the costs? Investigating the temporal patterns of impact in
marine tourism within Indonesian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Supervisory team: Andries Richter (WUR), Machiel Lamers (WUR)
PhD Project Description: As an archipelagic country, Indonesia’s marine tourism faces complexities that are beyond those encountered in land-based tourism. The rapid growth of marine tourism within Marine Protected areas (MPAs) creates a double-edged sword, offering economic gains such as an increase in revenue and job creation while also introducing hidden societal costs such as wastewater pollution and unequal benefit distribution. These impacts occur at different rates as economic benefits often occur fast, while hidden societal costs emerge more slowly, potentially harming social-ecological systems in the long run. My PhD project assess the temporal dynamics of the costs and benefits of marine tourism is crucial for understanding and fostering the equitability governance arrangements for Indonesian MPAs
Intan Adhi Perdana Putri is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), affiliated with two research groups: Environmental Economics and Natural Resources (ENR) and Environmental Policy (ENP). She also works at the Research Center for Population (PRK) at Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), a government body responsible for integrated research and development, policy studies and applications, as well as invention and innovation. Her BRIN research explores population and environment dynamics across Indonesia. Within the INREEF project, and drawing on her background in tropical marine economics, she focuses on the socio-economic impacts of marine tourism in marine protected areas (MPAs) across different social groups and timescales.