“Governing MPAs: Resilience through Diversity” – new study published
Dr. Peter Jones, University College London, has just published a new work titled “Governing Marine Protected Areas : resilience through diversity”. To view this work, click here.
In this work Peter Jones addresses some of the important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored through a study of 20 MPA case studies from around the world.
A novel governance analysis framework is employed to address some key questions: How can top-down and bottom-up approaches to MPA governance be combined? What does this mean, in reality, in different contexts? How can we develop and implement governance approaches that are both effective in achieving conservation objectives and equitable in fairly sharing associated costs and benefits?
Dr. Jones explores the many issues that these questions raise, as well as exploring options for addressing them. A key theme is that MPA governance needs to combine people, state and market approaches, rather than being based on one approach and its related ideals.
