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How is your MPA Doing?

This guidebook offers managers and other conservation practitioners a process and methods to evaluate the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for the purposes of Adaptive Management. The evaulation is based on indicators that measure the effectiveness of management actions in attaining goals and objectives that are specific to MPAs, the marine environment and coastal communities.

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Monitoring
Protected Area Network Design
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Data Analysis And Interpretation
Marine Resources
Site Assessment Reports
Management Effectiveness Report
Progress Towards Protected Area Targets
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