Citation
Burke L, Reytar K, Spalding M and Perry A (2011). Reefs At Risk Revisited. Washington (USA): World Resources Institute. 130 pp. URL: http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-risk-revisited.
The Reefs at Risk Revisited report provides a detailed assessment of the status of
and threats to the world's coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a
wide range of human activities, and includes an assessment of climate-related
threats to reefs. It also contains a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations
and territories to coral reef degradation.
This is the first Reefs at Risk project to incorporate data on global‐level threats.
These data not only enable estimations of current and imminent reef condition, but
also to project trends well into the future. For the global‐level threats, new models
were not developed, but rather incorporated existing data from partner
organizations on past thermal stress, future thermal stress, and ocean acidification.
These data have enabled considerations of impacts to date and the potential future
effects of ocean warming and acidification on reefs to 2030 and 2050 using climate
projection scenarios.