Establishing resilient marine protected area networks - making it happen : full technical version, including ecological, social and governance considerations, as well as case studies

All people, regardless of where they live, depend upon the existence of healthy marine ecosystems. While the role that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can play in promoting the health of the oceans and seas has been widely acknowledged, progress on building a network of MPAs has been slow to date. This can be in part explained by the fact that MPAs involve a host of issues that go much further than conservation alone. For conservationists and natural resource managers, identifying the conservation actions needed to establish MPA networks can therefore be difficult.