Improving marine protected area governance through collaboration and co-production

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:269

Article

Di Franco, Antonio^1,2  Hogg, Katie E.^3,4  Calo, Antonio^2,5  Bennett, Nathan J.^2,6,7  Sevin-Allouet, Marie-Aude³  Alaminos, Oscar Esparza⁸  Lang, Marianne⁹  Koutsoubas, Drosos¹⁰  Prvan, Mosor¹¹  Santarossa, Luca¹²  Niccolini, Federico¹³  Milazzo, Marco^5,14  Guidetti, Paolo^2,14,15 

[1] Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo, Dept Integrat Marine Ecol, Stn Zool Anton Dohrn, Complesso Roosevelt, I-90149 Palermo, Italy

[2] Univ Cote dAzur, ECOSEAS Lab, CNRS, UMR 7035, Parc Valrose 28,Ave Valrose, F-06108 Nice, France

[3] IUCN Ctr Mediterranean Cooperat, C Marie Curie 22, Malaga 29590, Spain

[4] Kate Hogg Consulting, Via Giosue Carducci, Palermo, Italy

[5] Univ Palermo, Dipartimento Sci Terra & Mare DiSTeM, Via Archirafi 20, I-90123 Palermo, Italy

[6] Univ British Columbia, Inst Oceans & Fisheries, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[7] Univ British Columbia, Inst Resources Environm & Sustainabil, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[8] WWF Spain, Gran Via San Francisco 8, Madrid 28005, Spain

[9] MedPAN, 58 Quai Du Port, F-13002 Marseille, France

[10] Univ Aegean, Sch Environm, Dept Marine Sci, Mitilini, Greece

[11] WWF Adria, Zelinska 2, Zagreb, Croatia

[12] Federparchi Europarc Italy, V Nazl 280, Rome, Italy

[13] Univ Pisa, Dept Econ & Management, Via Ridolfi, I-56124 Pisa, Italy

[14] CoNiSMa Consorzio Nazl Interuniv Sci Mare, Ple Flamini 9, I-00196 Rome, Italy

[15] Stn Zool A Dohrn Napoli, I-80121 Naples, Italy

关键词: Marine protected areas;    Good governance;    Perceived socio-ecological benefits;    Collaboration;    Co-production;    Action research;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110757

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Marine protected areas (MPAs) socio-ecological effectiveness depends on a number of management and governance elements, among which stakeholder engagement and community support play key roles. Collaborative conservation initiatives that engage stakeholders in action research and knowledge co-production processes can enhance management and governance of MPAs. To design effective strategies aimed at reconciling biodiversity conservation and management of sustainable human uses, it is key to assess how local communities respond to such initiatives and identify the set of contextual factors, institutional, local and individual, potentially affecting these responses. This paper presents the approach and results of one such initiative, spanning 6 EU countries and 11 MPAs in the Mediterranean Sea, focusing on small-scale fishers as key MPA users. Through a collaborative project, managers and fishers agreed upon specific governance interventions (e.g. increasing stakeholder engagement, engaging fishers in monitoring activities, reducing fishing efforts) to be implemented in each MPA for one year. Structured surveys queried: MPA managers on the MPA context, governance structure, feasibility and effectiveness of the tested interventions; and small-scale fishers on their perceptions of the impact of the tested interventions on a set of 9 socio-ecological variables (e.g. amount of fish caught, level of participation in decision-making, support for the MPA). Results revealed that the interventions tested were relatively feasible, effective and cost-effective. Fishers reported positive perceptions of the interventions for the 9 variables considered, especially for level of support for the MPA and for those associated with aspects of governance. Proportional odds models highlighted perceived effects are maximized under certain institutional, local and individual circumstances (e.g. old MPAs, small fisher communities, and fishers with a high proportion of income from fisheries). Findings highlight that employing good governance processes involving stakeholders may rapidly generate improved local support for conservation and provide insights for potential leverage points upon which to act to maximize perceived effectiveness and enhance support toward MPAs.

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