Marine Protected Areas

<p>Foreword: Progress towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceasn: targets and challenges<br>Preface<br>Acknowledgements</p> <p>PART ONE: POLICY<br>1. A critical history of marine protected areas<br>2. Marine protected areas and marine spatial planning - allocation of resource use and environmental protection<br>3. Challenges facing marine protected areas in Southern African countries in light of the expanding ocean economies in the sub-region<br>4. The South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf Marine Protected Area: towards the establishment of marine spatial protection within the international waters in the Southern Ocean<br>5. Uneasy Bedfellows: Fisheries and the search for space for Marine Conservation Zones in English Waters<br>6. The role of coastal communities in the sustainable management of marine protected areas<br>7.  The use of natural capital in the choice, management and evaluation of MPAs<br>8. Some consequences of policy instabilities for marine protecred area management <br>9. Managing marine protected areas in Europe: moving from 'feature-based' to 'whole-site; management of sites<br>10. The role of UK Marine Protected Area management in contributing to sustainable development in the marine environment<br>11. The law and marine protected areas: different regimes and their practical impacts in England<br>12. Marine protected areas in the UK - conservation or recovery?<br>13. South Africa's Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area - winners and losers </p> <p>PART TWO: MANAGEMENT<br>14. Developing a fisheries management plan for the Pitcairn Islands Marine Protected Area<br>15. Countering the threat of invaive species to the Galapagos marine reserve<br>16. Balancing rural development and robust nature conservation - lessons learnt from Kosterhavet Marine National Park, Sweden <br>17. The Torre Guaceto marine protected area e what can we learn from this success story? <br>18. The challenges of establishing marine protected areas in South East Asia <br>19. Have you seen the dolphins? Dolphin watching participatory monitoring in a Brazilian multiple-use Marine Protected Area <br>20. A new approach to monitoring Marine Protected Area Management Success in the Dutch Caribbean <br>21. Crossing jurisdictions: the implementation of offshore marine protected areas in an international fishery<br>22. A net positive effect? Assessing the impact on fishing opportunities within multiple-use MPAs. A case study from Scotland<br>23. Managing a dredge fishery within a marine protected area: resolving environmental and socio-economic objectives<br>24. Marine protected areas - the importance of positive partnerships and stakeholder engagement for delivering environmental outcomes in an estuary <br>25. Enforcement capabilities and compliance in English Marine Protected Areas: the art of the possible</p> <p>PART THREE: SCIENCE<br>26. Using science effectively: selection, design and management of marine protected areas<br>27. How new science should affect the application of protection measures for UK estuarine shorebirds<br>28. Verifying predictions of statistical models to define the size and shape of marine Special Protection Areas for foraging seabirds (terns)<br>29. Developments in understanding of red-throated diver responses to offshore wind farms in marine Special Protection Areas <br>30. Sediment transport and Marine Protected Areas<br>31. On sediment dispersal in the Whitsand Bay Marine Conservation Zone: neighbour to a closed dredge-spoil disposal site <br>32. Maintaining ecological resilience on a regional scale: coastal saline lagoons in a northern European marine protected area<br>33. The adaptive capacity of the willow (Salix alba L.) to bridge the gap between MPAs and harbour entrances <br>34. Palaeoenvironmental determination of biogeochemistry and ecological response in an estuarine marine protected area<br>35. Consequences of nitrate enrichment in a temperate estuarine marine protected area; response of the microbial primary producers and consequences for<br>management<br>36. Macroalgal mats in a eutrophic estuarine marine protected area: implications for benthic invertebrates and wading birds <br>37. Assessing the benefits of shellfish aquaculture in improving water quality in Poole Harbour, an estuarine Marine Protected Area<br>38. Nitrogen pollution in coastal Marine Protected Areas: a river catchment partnership to plan and deliver targets in a UK estuarine Special Protection Area</p> <p>PART FOUR: CONCLUDING REMARKS<br>39. Marine Protected Areas: Quo Vadis?</p>