Marine Protected Areas in the Coral Triangle: Progress, Issues, and Options
| Autor: | Stacey Tighe, Annick Cros, Wen Wen, Nurulhuda Ahmad Fatan, Alan T. White, Lynette Laroya, Anne Walton, Porfirio M. Aliño, Stanley Tan, Rubén Venegas-Li, Shwu Jiau Teoh, Alison Green, Nate Peterson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
geography.geographical_feature_category
business.industry Marine reserve Environmental resource management Marine spatial planning Coral reef Exclusive economic zone Coral Triangle Geography Critical habitat Environmental Chemistry Marine protected area business Coral reef protection General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Coastal Management. 42:87-106 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0421 0892-0753 |
| Popis: | The six Coral Triangle countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste—each have evolving systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) at the national and local levels. More than 1,900 MPAs covering 200,881 km2 (1.6% of the exclusive economic zone for the region) have been established within these countries over the last 40 years under legal mandates that range from village level traditional law to national legal frameworks that mandate the protection of large areas as MPAs. The focus of protection has been primarily on critical marine habitats and ecosystems, with a strong emphasis on maintaining and improving the status of near-shore fisheries, a primary food and economic resource in the region. This article brings together for the first time a consistent set of current data on MPAs for the six countries and reviews progress toward the establishment of MPAs in these countries with regard to (i) coverage of critical habitat (e.g., 17.8% of the coral reef habitat... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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