The potential for dive tourism led entrepreneurial marine protected areas in Curacao

Groot, Jiska de; Bush, Simon R.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2010.03.004

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“…However, Torell et al [77] posit that in the long run grants are counterproductive to sustainability. Authors often suggest that money from PES markets [82,126], lease money from entrepreneurial MPAs [171], trust funds [73,172], user fees [65,66], and micro-credit schemes [91] should be funneled towards alternative livelihood development, scholarships, tourism infrastructure, or health and social infrastructure (not just towards MPA management as is often argued). Cinner [167] makes a case that procuring funding is essential to help fishers break out of the poverty trap that necessitates their use of destructive fishing gear.…”

Section: Successful Development Programs: Process and Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A wide variety of organizations at various scales can have important roles to play in ensuring that development programs are successful [73,111]-including international NGOs acting as intermediaries in PES projects [126], businesses identifying development opportunities [76], and community and user associations advocating for local people [55]. Productive relationships with private sector partners -for example, through the development of private-sector developed 'Entrepreneurial MPAs' [171,175]-may also benefit local communities through the payment of coral reef leases by hotels or diving companies for diving in trade for exclusion of fishers' withdrawal and access rights and patrolling services see also [180].…”

Section: Successful Development Programs: Process and Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From measuring outcomes to providing inputs: Governance, management, and local development for more effective marine protected areas

Bennett¹,

Dearden²

2018

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Marine protected areas (MPAs) have the potential to conserve marine resources as well as provide social and economic benefits to local communities. Yet the percentage of MPAs that might be considered “successful” or effective on ecological and/or socio-economic accounts is debatable. Measurement of biophysical and socio-economic outcome indicators has become de rigeur for examining MPA management effectiveness so that adaptive feedback loops can stimulate new management actions. Scholars and practitioners alike have suggested that more attention should be given to the inputs that are likely to lead to successful MPA outcomes. This paper briefly discusses the potential ecological and socio-economic outcomes of MPAs then reviews the literature on three categories of inputs – governance, management, and local development – that lead to effective MPAs. In conclusion, the paper presents a novel inputs framework that incorporates indicators for governance, management and development to be used in the design and analysis of MPAs.

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Section: Successful Development Programs: Process and Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Successful Development Programs: Process and Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From measuring outcomes to providing inputs: Governance, management, and local development for more effective marine protected areas

Bennett¹,

Dearden²

2018

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“…Their role in marine conservation is often captured by the term "entrepreneurial MPAs" (EMPAs) [77]. EMPAs are typically small in scale and supported commercially by private organizations or individuals [77,78]. Colwell has pointed out that the private sector (and dive resorts in particular) "which have a vested economic interest in promoting abundant marine life, can become the primary stewards of small-scale, commercially supported MPAs in coral reefs areas" [77] (p. 110).…”

Section: Individualism-empas Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Marine Protected Areas Are Governed: A Cultural Theory Perspective

2018

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have become recognized as important management tools for marine and coastal ecosystems in the last few decades. However, the theoretical underpinnings of MPA regimes have arguably not yet received sufficient attention. This paper attempts to remedy this by exploring how the Cultural Theory initiated by Dame Mary Douglas can provide a theoretical foundation for the current debates about the design of MPA regimes. It does so by firstly noting that the various types of MPA governance discussed in the literature correspond to the ways of organizing, perceiving and justifying social relations recognized in Cultural Theory. The article continues by setting out how Cultural Theory helps to explain when and why MPA regimes succeed or fail to reach their goals. In particular, the article highlights the practical importance of accommodating all ways of organizing and perceiving social relations in any MPA management plan. Finally, the paper suggests that further systematic, empirical work for assessing MPAs needs to be undertaken so as to corroborate the arguments advanced in this paper.

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“…In these so-called 'entrepreneurial marine protected areas' (EMPAs) (Colwell 1997), private actors seek business opportunities that fund a combination of conservation activities as well as the livelihoods of local resource users (Colwell 1998;de Groot and Bush 2010;Bottema and Bush 2012). The activities of these private entrepreneurs range from collecting diver fees to fund park management (Dixon et al 1993;Tongson and Dygico 2004;de Groot and Bush 2010), to the design and implementation of co-management arrangements in state designated parks (Teh et al 2008), and to varying degrees of private tenure over spatially delimited marine habitat (Svensson et al 2010). However, while the number of these EMPAs has increased, the extent to which they can successfully implement area-based conservation measures depends in large part on legal recognition from the state.…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Marine Protected Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%