Governing Marine Protected Areas: Resilience through Diversity (Earthscan Oceans)

Synopsis

In This Challenging Volume, The Author Addresses Some Key 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? The Author 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. Building On A Critique Of The Governance Analysis Framework Developed For Common-pool Resources, The Author Puts Forward A More Holistic And Less Prescriptive Framework For Deconstructing And Analyzing The Governance Of Mpas. This Interdisciplinary Analysis Is Aimed At Supporting The Development Of Mpa Governance Approaches That Build Social-ecological Resilience Through Both Institutional And Biological Diversity. It Will Also Make A Significant Contribution To Wider Debates On Natural Resource Governance, As It Poses Some Critical Questions For Contemporary Approaches To Related Research And Offers An Alternative Theoretical And Empirical Approach-- 1. An Introduction To Marine Protected Areas -- Marine Protected Areas As A Governance Challenge -- Societal Concerns Extend Out To Sea -- Mpas As Part Of The Solution -- International Policy Landscape -- Mpas In The Context Of Sustainable Development -- A Brief History Of Mpas -- Slow Progress And Lack Of Effectiveness -- 2. Objectives And Categories Of Mpas -- Introduction -- The Objectives Of Mpas -- Different Categories Of Mpas -- 3. Differences And Divergences -- Introduction -- Different Value Priorities -- Divergent Views And The Quest For Common Ground -- Some Key Differences Between Marine And Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Summary -- 4. Different Theoretical Perspectives On Governance -- Introduction -- Current Environmental Governance Theories -- Alternative Concept Of Co-evolutionary Hierarchical Governance -- Co-management -- Social-ecological Resilience -- 5. Empirical Framework For Analysing Mpa Governance Approaches -- Introduction -- Positionality -- The Empirical Framework -- Summary -- 6. Overview Of Case Studies -- Introduction -- General Findings From And Patterns Amongst The Case Studies -- Driving Forces -- 7. Incentives For Effectiveness -- Introduction -- Incentives Used To Withstand Driving Forces -- Summary -- 8. Resilience Through Diversity -- Introduction -- Incentives Used And Needed -- Cross-cutting Issues -- Social-ecological Resilience Through Incentive Diversity -- The Vital Reinforcing Role Of The State -- Conclusions. Peter J.s. Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.