Sea Change: Exploring the International Effort to Promote Marine Protected Areas

dc.contributor.author	Noella J. Gray
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-21T15:33:14Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-21T15:33:14Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description.abstract	Citing multiple threats to marine biodiversity and resources, the international marine conservation community is promoting greater adoption of marine protected areas (MPAs). Like terrestrial protected areas, MPAs are characterised by debates over the appropriate role for scientific input and citizen participation and how to balance concerns for both social equity and ecological effectiveness. This paper explores how such debates are influencing the framing of MPAs as a global policy tool, based on an 'event ethnography' conducted at the 2008 World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. International non-governmental organisations (NGOs) dominated the discussions and agenda setting, although multiple concerns for MPAs were incorporated into the discussions. The framing of MPAs highlighted a global scale and vision, reflected by and reinforcing the dominant role of the big NGOs. However, it did not go unchallenged, nor is it prescriptive.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10166/5986
dc.publisher	Conservation and Society
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 8, Number 4
dc.relation.ispartofseries	331-338
dc.subject	WCC
dc.subject	marine
dc.subject	protected areas
dc.title	Sea Change: Exploring the International Effort to Promote Marine Protected Areas
dc.type	Article

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