Effective Public Participation is Fundamental for Marine Conservation—Lessons from a Large-Scale MPA

Day, Jon C.

doi:10.1080/08920753.2017.1373452

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“…Second, and relatedly, consultation processes may be critical to informing stakeholder viewpoints and deserve greater attention. While insights regarding stakeholder consultation processes in LSMPAs are emerging [44,52], researchers and practitioners should further consider what stakeholder engagement means and how it can be done effectively in this context. Scholars have warned that so-called 'participatory' approaches are not a panacea [53,54] and have questioned whether the term is simply being used as a 'means to an end' rather than reflecting a genuine commitment to achieve meaningful participation in practice [55,56].…”

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Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas

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Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs), MPAs greater than 100,000km 2 , have proliferated in the past decade. However, the value of LSMPAs as conservation tools is debated, in both global scientific and policy venues as well as in particular sites. To add nuance and more diverse voices to this debate, this research examines the perspectives of stakeholders directly engaged with LSMPAs. We conducted a Q Method study with forty LSMPA stakeholders at five sites, including three established LSMPAs (the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, United States; the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati; the National Marine Sanctuary, Palau) and two sites where LSMPAs had been proposed at the time of research (Bermuda and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile). The analysis reveals five distinct viewpoints of LSMPAs. These include three more optimistic views of LSMPAs we have named Enthusiast, Purist, and Relativist. It also depicts two more cautious views of LSMPAs, which we have named Critic and Skeptic. The findings demonstrate the multi-dimensionality of stakeholder viewpoints on LSMPAs. These shared viewpoints have implications for the global LSMPA debate and LSMPA decision-makers, including highlighting the need to focus on LSMPA consultation processes. Better understanding of these viewpoints, including stakeholder beliefs, perspectives, values and concerns, may help to facilitate more nuanced dialogue amongst LSMPA stakeholders and, in turn, promote better governance of LSMPAs.

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“…Engagement has been widely endorsed internationally as contributing to trust and leading to improved management in academic and policy circles (Reed, 2008;Sayce et al, 2013;Gaymer et al, 2014;Sterling et al, 2017). Considerations for effective community engagement requires: (1) considering who is involved, (2) recognising agency (do they want to be included), and (3) providing opportunity and access (Day, 2017). The complexity surrounding engagement is illustrated in Kosi Bay, Hluleka and the Tsitsikamma where unsettled and ongoing land claims require ongoing communication not just with local leaders but also land claimants and resource users (e.g.…”

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Community and Marine Conservation in South Africa: Are We Still Missing the Mark?

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in South Africa have a long history with currently 5% of the mainland’s ocean territory protected. The MPAs are celebrated and appreciated for their representative coverage of several habitat types and their ecological benefits. However, the story of correlational coastal community exclusion is not one that is often told in the ‘success’ story of South African MPAs. In this review we describe the history of marine conservation in South Africa and examine how the legislation and motivation has evolved since Apartheid. While legislation provides direction in terms of community inclusion, this is rarely the reality as we explore with five case studies. We go on to discuss how top-down governance continues to exclude communities and suggest key lessons drawn from our case-studies that could lead to a more community-involved approach to the ongoing protection and management of our marine habitats for greater conservation success.

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“…Expert committees were established, including one to assess the representativeness of the existing and proposed reserve networks (Day et al, 2003;Fernandes et al, 2009), which helped to popularise the software Marxan (Ball and Possingham, 2000). Two rounds of public consultation (in 2002 and 2003) resulted in over 30,000 submissions (Day, 2017;GBRMPA, 2003) and a Structural Adjustment Package (SAP) was established to compensate displaced fishers Olsson et al, 2008).…”

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“…Efforts to rectify this information gap are encouraging (e.g. Day, 2016Day, , 2017 as some of my interviewees felt the lessons from these planning processes have been underutilised. However, greater support needs to be provided by the organisations responsible for developing plans.…”

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Barriers to the evaluation of systematic conservation plans: Insights from landmark Australian plans

McIntosh

2019

Biological Conservation

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The evaluation of conservation programs is often inhibited by barriers such as time 7 constraints and a lack of funding. Through an exploration of two internationally influential 8 systematic conservation planning activities conducted in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, I 9 demonstrate this is also true for conservation planning programs. Forestry agreements in North East New South Wales and the rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park popularised the now widely used planning software packages C-Plan and Marxan. Through 37 semi-structured interviews with senior stakeholders involved in decision-making around both plans, I examined barriers to evaluation, the factors underpinning these barriers, and, in the absence of program-wide evaluations, stakeholder perceptions of the effectiveness of the plans. My findings confirmed that the primary barriers to the evaluation of conservation planning exercises are a lack of suitable monitoring data, resource limitations and inadequate preparation. Respondents also shed light on the factors which shaped these barriers in a conservation context, such as the need for political expediency, a loss of momentum postplan, and the presence or absence of necessary leadership. Perceptions of the effectiveness of the plans reflected interpretations of a) whether the planning process followed good practice, b) the fact a planning result was agreed upon and implemented, c) the longer-term influence of the plan, and, in contrast to much of the current literature on these case studies, d) the consequences of industry restructuring. Highlights • Barriers to evaluation were due to lack of resources and preparation • Political context and organisational culture shaped barriers to evaluation • Healthcare and other disciplines face similar challenges and can offer lessons • New perspectives on project effectiveness are shared from senior decision-makers • Perceptions of effectiveness also reflected the effects of industry compensation

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Effective Public Participation is Fundamental for Marine Conservation—Lessons from a Large-Scale MPA

Abstract: The Representative Areas Program (RAP)

Cited by 43 publications

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Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas

Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas

Community and Marine Conservation in South Africa: Are We Still Missing the Mark?

Barriers to the evaluation of systematic conservation plans: Insights from landmark Australian plans

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