TOWARD A GLOBAL NETWORK OF MOUNTAIN PROTECTED AREAS

2010 ◽  
pp. 422-430
Author(s):  
C J Martinka,J D Peine ◽  
andD L Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Global Network

scholarly journals A global network of marine protected areas for food

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (45) ◽  
pp. 28134-28139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reniel B. Cabral ◽  
Darcy Bradley ◽  
Juan Mayorga ◽  
Whitney Goodell ◽  
Alan M. Friedlander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Additional Protection ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
Business As Usual

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are conservation tools that are increasingly implemented, with growing national commitments for MPA expansion. Perhaps the greatest challenge to expanded use of MPAs is the perceived trade-off between protection and food production. Since MPAs can benefit both conservation and fisheries in areas experiencing overfishing and since overfishing is common in many coastal nations, we ask how MPAs can be designed specifically to improve fisheries yields. We assembled distribution, life history, and fisheries exploitation data for 1,338 commercially important stocks to derive an optimized network of MPAs globally. We show that strategically expanding the existing global MPA network to protect an additional 5% of the ocean could increase future catch by at least 20% via spillover, generating 9 to 12 million metric tons more food annually than in a business-as-usual world with no additional protection. Our results demonstrate how food provisioning can be a central driver of MPA design, offering a pathway to strategically conserve ocean areas while securing seafood for the future.

scholarly journals Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. eaay9969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek P. Tittensor ◽  
Maria Beger ◽  
Kristina Boerder ◽  
Daniel G. Boyce ◽  
Rachel D. Cavanagh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Responsive Design

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) are required to ensure long-term effectiveness for safeguarding marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we review progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management and provide eight recommendations to expedite this process. Climate-smart management objectives should become the default for all protected areas, and made into an explicit international policy target. Furthermore, incentives to use more dynamic management tools would increase the climate change responsiveness of the MPA network as a whole. Given ongoing negotiations on international conservation targets, now is the ideal time to proactively reform management of the global seascape for the dynamic climate-biodiversity reality.

Funds for biodiversity

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Gössling
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Global Network ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
General View ◽  
The World ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Nations Environment ◽  
Environment Programme

A number of recent publications have pointed out the accelerating speed at which ecosystems and biodiversity are being lost (United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Environment Programme/The World Bank/The World Resources Institute 2000). The general view is that conservation can only be achieved in a global network of protected areas (see Pimm et al. 2001). To safeguard the most important ecosystems, Myers et al. (2000) have suggested that we primarily conserve 25 biodiversity hotspots, in particular forests, comprising 1.4% of the land surface of the Earth. The costs for the conservation of these hotspots have been estimated at US$ 500 million per year (Myers et al. 2000), while the costs of a global network of protected areas may even reach US$ 27.5 billion per year (James et al. 1999). Even though these costs may seem minor compared to, for example, the costs of global armament, governments in developing countries and environmental organizations are clearly not in the position to finance conservation. It is thus urgent to raise additional funds to safeguard biodiversity. In the following, I suggest a twofold strategy, based on tourism.

scholarly journals Connectivity of the global network of protected areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Santini ◽  
Santiago Saura ◽  
Carlo Rondinini
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Global Network
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