Sea change: Exploring the international effort to promote marine protected areas

Gray, Noella J.

doi:10.4103/0972-4923.78149

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“…First, the social sciences can be used to document and describe the diversity of conservation practices, including historic and current examples (Berkes, 1999;Cinner and Aswani, 2007;Colding and Folke, 2001;Jacquet et al, 2011), as well as conservation planning, decision-making and governance processes (Borrini-Feyerabend and Hill, 2015;Flannery et al, 2015;Osmond et al, 2010). Second, social science can help to diagnose why conservation is succeeding or failing Cinner et al, 2016;Cullman, 2015), what scales are appropriate for different conservation processes and projects (Levine, 2007;Wyborn and Bixler, 2013) and how different processes (e.g., collaboration or integration of science) might fail as a result of the interactions between groups (Gray, 2010;Walley, 2002;Wyborn, 2015b).…”

Section: The Contributions Of the Social Sciences To Conservationmentioning

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Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Bennett¹,

Roth²,

Klain³

et al. 2018

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It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimensions. This paper examines the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation. In brief, the conservation social sciences can be valuable to conservation for descriptive, diagnostic, disruptive, reflexive, generative, innovative, or instrumental reasons. This review and supporting materials provides a succinct yet comprehensive reference for conservation scientists and practitioners. We contend that the social sciences can help facilitate conservation policies, actions and outcomes that are more legitimate, salient, robust and effective.

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Section: The Contributions Of the Social Sciences To Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Bennett¹,

Roth²,

Klain³

et al. 2018

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215

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“…As an alternative to scaling up the geographic extent of individual MPAs, conservationists are increasingly promoting large scale marine governance through networks of smaller MPAs that may spread the costs of conservation across resource owners and/ or users, and ''can have emergent benefits that make the network more than the sum of its individual parts'' (Gaines et al, 2010, p. 18286). The most prominent global policymaking fora (i.e., World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Parks Congress, and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity) have all called for ecologically representative MPA networks (Gray, 2010).…”

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Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network

Gruby

Basurto

2014

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…The establishment of MPAs is an area of ICZM that attracts considerable debate (Gray 2010;Osmond et al 2010), no more so than in the Australian state of Victoria, where there has been a prolonged period of public debate and formal investigation into the merits or otherwise of establishing and maintaining a Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) system of marine reserves, including highly protected 'no take' Marine National Parks, marine sanctuaries, and other reserves (Clode 2006;Wescott 2006). As part of these debates, concerted efforts were made to present the marine environment and MPAs in ways that were familiar to people, including in the naming of marine environments using terms such as 'forests', 'gardens', and 'meadows' (Wescott 2006: 914).…”

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Towards an Improved Understanding of Knowledge Dynamics in Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Knowledge Systems Framework

Coffey¹,

O’Toole²

2012

Conservat Soc

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Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a complex undertaking that draws on a range of biophysical and social science disciplines, and involves a wide range of stakeholders operating through multiple processes, and crossing various levels. Conceptually, this means that ICZM represents a significant challenge in terms of improving the way in which different disciplinary 'knowledges' and different forms of knowledge (scientific, managerial, lay, and indigenous) inform decision making. Depending upon the circumstances, ICZM may be constrained by different knowledge deficits, including: uncertainty; science -policy gaps; and the 'filtering' of particular forms of knowledge relative to others. As a means for making sense of these knowledge dynamics, this paper considers the concept of knowledge systems and its potential for improving understanding of coastal management processes. The potential insights that can be gained from four analytical approaches (stakeholder, institutional, network, and discourse analysis) are then discussed, and used to develop an analytical framework for investigating coastal knowledge dynamics, which is based upon a generic coastal knowledge system and associated research questions. Finally, the utility of this framework is illustrated using a case study that examines the knowledge dynamics associated with debates about the establishment of marine protected areas in Victoria, Australia.

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Sea change: Exploring the international effort to promote marine protected areas

Cited by 55 publications

References 34 publications

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network

Towards an Improved Understanding of Knowledge Dynamics in Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Knowledge Systems Framework

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