Assessing stakeholder perceptions to guide social and ecological fit of marine protected areas.

ABSTRACT: Effective social and ecological interventions that can benefit both nature and people are needed to halt the degradation of ecosystems and subsequent negative impacts on human well-being. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are commonly used to foster the sustainability of coastal social-ecological systems. However, because MPAs are often proposed and implemented by external actors, ensuring they are fit to the local social and ecological context remains a challenge. Here, we introduce a framework to identify the place-based social and ecological goals for an MPA. We use a marine conservation project in the Philippines as a case study. We assess the perceptions of local communities and decision-makers across four categories: (i) marine importance, (ii) environmental stressors, (iii) proposed man

SUBMITTER: Brun V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11460489 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature