The Guide shows how integrated governance can combine the roles of national governments, local communities, and market schemes to enhance the effectiveness of marine protected areas. Click on the link below to access the full report.
Trust, transparency, communication, and fairness in the planning and management of conservation projects may be more important for gaining long-term local support than emphasizing ecological effectiveness, UBC-led research has discovered.
GAPA is a relatively simple, rapid and low-cost governance assessment methodology for use by PA/CA stakeholders working together to assess governance strengths and challenges of a PA/CA and help promote stronger and fairer governance. Click on the link below to access the full paper.
Traditional Marine Management Areas of the Pacific in the Context of National and International Law and Policy
This report explores the role of traditional marine resources management in meeting both the goals of communities and those of national and international conservation strategies.
Good governance may be viewed as applying a set of internationally accepted principles for governing protected areas... MPAs that effectively apply these good governance principles can have sustained support and resiliency, and can meet multiple community and conservation goals.
The first session of the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the UNCLOS on BBNJ discussed marine genetic resources; environmental impact assessments; area-based management tools, including marine protected areas; and capacity building and marine techn
Scholarships for our international course on landscape governance now available! Our famous international course on landscape governance is now open for application. Scholarships are available if applied for before October 10th...Click on the link below for further details
During its weekly meeting of Tuesday, 14 August, the government of New Caledonia adopted three decrees relating to the Natural Park of the Coral Sea. Click on the link below to read the full press kit.
...the Navakavu Revitalization Strategy 2018-2022 (NRS) is a leading example of how local governance structures are helping to meeting national and international development frameworks and priorities.
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The São Paulo University Oceanographic Institute, São Paulo, Brazil will be conducting a week-long school on ocean governance, from the13 to 25 August 2018.Click on the link below for further details.
