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Marine Protected Areas and Highly Protected Marine Areas

2023
A POSTnote summarising the types and network of Marine Protected Areas and the designation Highly Protected Marine Areas in English inshore and offshore waters.
Hazel Cooley, Jonathan Wentworth
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Greek Marine Protected Areas

European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2000
A survey of the law concerning marine protected areas in Greece, and the actions which have been taken pursuant to those laws. The international conventions on environmental protection areas: the Ramsar Convention, the Cultural and Natural Heritage Convention, the Bern Convention, UNCLOS, the Biodiversity Convention, the Bonn Convention, the Barcelona ...
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Mediterranean marine protected areas

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2001
A collection of five recent papers assesses the role and effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean. The papers provide a broad perspective of MPAs and include social, economic, cultural, biological and statistical components.
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Marine Protected Areas

2011
Human-induced environmental disturbance – through fishery activities, coastal development, tourism and pollution – is a major challenge to the restoration and conservation of marine biodiversity. Synthesizing the latest research into marine biodiversity conservation and fisheries management, this book provides regional and global perspectives on the ...
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Marine Protected Areas

2016
Globally, oceans are facing a large number of threats including overfishing, pollution, sedimentation, and climate change. As a result, marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being implemented as part of an ecosystem-based management approach for conserving biodiversity and managing marine resources.
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Marine protected areas

Nature Food, 2023
Jean M. Harris, Amanda T. Lombard
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Marine Protected Areas

2012
What are marine protected areas? One of the crown jewels of marine ecosystems is the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) off the northeast coast of Australia. The reef stretches along 2,600 km of the Queensland coast and consists of 900 islands and 2,900 reefs.
Ray Hilborn, Ulrike Hilborn
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Improving assessments of marine protected areas

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 2009
Abstract The use of experimental design and statistical analysis to evaluate the effects of marine protected areas (MPAs) is increasingly popular throughout the world. However, in looking at historical approaches to MPA evaluations, flaws were identified in the execution of theoretically correct designs, as well as disconnects between the stated ...
CLAUDET, JOACHIM PAUL, GUIDETTI, Paolo
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Marine Conservation and Marine Protected Areas

2019
Marine protected areas are important tools for the conservation of marine biodiversity, providing refuge for harvested species and mitigating the negative impacts of human activities in marine ecosystems. However, delineating sites for protection within effective MPA networks is a formidable challenge. A primary objective of MPA planning is to optimize
Amanda Xuereb   +11 more
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