Striking a balance between ecological, economic, governance, and social dimensions in marine protected area network evaluations
| dc.contributor.author | Meehan, Mairi C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, Gerald | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ban, Natalie C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Devillers, Rodolphe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Claudet, Joachim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-22T17:17:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-22T17:17:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Marine protected area networks (MPANs) are promised as tools for protecting biodiversity and contributing to sustainable development. The variety of expected social-ecological outcomes associated with MPANs underscores a need to consider ecological, economic, governance, and social dimensions in MPAN design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. However, little is known about how these four dimensions are considered or shaped by objectives. We conducted an online survey with MPAN managers, technical staff, and academics from across the globe (77 survey responses that described 48 MPANs located in 59 countries). Our findings confirmed that most MPANs have various co-occurring, potentially conflicting objectives. MPANs with biodiversity and societal objectives considered attributes (e.g., human well-being and economic distribution, institutional partnerships, and network-specific ecological attributes) among all dimensions, with greater frequency than MPANs with only biodiversity objectives. Nonetheless, ecological attributes were always perceived as important irrespective of the MPAN objective. Reaching synergies between the multiple dimensions of MPANs can be challenging if dimensions get overlooked in MPAN evaluations. Identifying the important attributes considered in MPANs offers insight into the practice of MPAN design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation and can help improve MPAN success. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research is sponsored by the NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network and its Partners: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and INREST (representing the Port of Sept-Îles and City of Sept-Îles). Mairi C. Meehan and Gerald G. Singh acknowledge support from the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the University of Washington EarthLab. Natalie C. Ban was supported by NSERC. Joachim Claudet was supported by Biodiversa+ (METRODIVER and MOVE) and Fondation de France. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Meehan, M. C., Singh, G. G., Ban, N. C., Devillers, R., & Claudet, J. (2023b). Striking a balance between ecological, economic, governance, and social dimensions in marine protected area network evaluations. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(8). https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12989 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12989 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/16271 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Conservation Science and Practice | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | evaluation | |
| dc.subject | expert elicitation | |
| dc.subject | marine conservation | |
| dc.subject | marine protected area networks | |
| dc.subject | MPA networks | |
| dc.subject | multiple dimensions | |
| dc.subject | multiple objectives | |
| dc.subject | social-ecological | |
| dc.subject | survey | |
| dc.subject.department | School of Environmental Studies | |
| dc.title | Striking a balance between ecological, economic, governance, and social dimensions in marine protected area network evaluations | |
| dc.type | Article |