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Analysis of Factors Affecting Fishermen Participation in Marine Protected Area East Java
Jurnal Pembangunan dan Alam Lestari, 2022 The main failure of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in achieving its objectives is the lack of involvement of users (communities) and stakeholders in the planning and decision-making processes, with unforeseen social consequences.
Reny Tiarantika, Anthon Efani
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Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Marine protected areas (MPAs), particularly large MPAs, are increasing in number and size around the globe in part to facilitate the conservation of marine megafauna under the assumption that large-scale MPAs better align with vagile life histories ...
M. Conners +61 more
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Marine Protected Areas should be managed with greater integration
California Agriculture, 1997 Like their counterparts on land, protected areas in U.S. coastal waters are numerous and complex. California alone has 104 marine protected areas (MPAs). MPAs carry a variety of names.
Deborah McArdle
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A Scientific Synthesis of Marine Protected Areas in the United States: Status and Recommendations
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a key tool for achieving goals for biodiversity conservation and human well-being, including improving climate resilience and equitable access to nature.
Jenna Sullivan-Stack +30 more
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Reviewing the Ecosystem Services, Societal Goods, and Benefits of Marine Protected Areas
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Marine protected areas (MPAs) are globally important environmental management tools that provide protection from the effects of human exploitation and activities, supporting the conservation of marine biological diversity, habitats, ecosystems and the ...
C. Marcos +13 more
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Quantifying Transboundary Plastic Pollution in Marine Protected Areas Across the Mediterranean Sea
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Micro- and macro-plastics pollution is a growing threat for marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and consequently human wellbeing. Numerical models that consider main sources of plastics and simulate their dispersal characteristics are unique ...
Y. Hatzonikolakis +6 more
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Status of marine protected areas in Egypt [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2011 Egypt has sought to protect its natural resources and marine biodiversity by establishing a network of six MPAs that are generally located in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea; most of them include interconnected marine and terrestrial sectors based on ...
Samy, M. +2 more
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Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
Nature, 2014 In line with global targets agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the number of marine protected areas (MPAs) is increasing rapidly, yet socio-economic benefits generated by MPAs remain difficult to predict and under debate.
G. Edgar +25 more
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, 2023 We extracted the targeted protected areas boundaries from The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), which is the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas.
World Database on Protected Areas (14819134)
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Current Issues of Taiwan's Marine Protected Areas Legal Regime
Hasanuddin Law Review, 2020 As an 'Ocean Nation,' it is essential for Taiwan to make efforts to conserve its aquatic zones through marine protected areas (MPAs). Marine protected areas have considered one of the most precise methods of maintaining sustainable ecosystems and ...
Adrian Nugraha
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