by John Davis | May 15, 2012
UK recalculates Chagos MPA size; finds it is 100,000 km2 larger than announced You know your MPA is big when the officially announced size is off by 100,000 km2 and no one catches the mistake for two years. The Chagos Marine Protected Area has been widely reported...
by John Davis | May 15, 2012
The global median size for marine protected areas is 1.6 km2.* In other words, half of MPAs worldwide are larger than that, and half are smaller. The following list, drawn from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), features marine protected areas that are...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
The essence of natural resource management is making decisions about trade-offs. At the most basic level, there are the trade-offs between managing for short-term benefits now or foregoing them for greater benefits later. Then there are trade-offs between different...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
By Tundi Agardy, MEAM Contributing Editor (tundiagardy@earthlink.net) Only a fool would suggest that trade-off analysis is a simple process. But I will propose a simplifying principle. No matter how sophisticated the analysis, how rich the data on values and...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Apr 26, 2012
[Editor's note: Charles Ehler is president of Ocean Visions Consulting and a senior consultant on marine spatial planning to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, France. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has supported his...