Huey-Shian CHUNG PhD candidate Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong
What is MPA Terminology sanctuary area, marine parks, marine national parks, marine reserves, national marine parks, national seashores, fisheries conservation zones and etc. The Definition of MPA: A clearly area with marine attributes, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, mainly to achieve a long-term conservation purposes
How MPAs work
Zoning strategy -core zone (no-take zone) -restricted zone -peripheral zone
Main Benefits of zoning MPAs
Achieve diverse objectives Balance stress from human involvement to oceans Separate competing marine users
Global commitments to MPAs
Aichi Biodiversity Targets 17% MPA coverage in costal States terrestrial and inland waters by 2020.
Benefits and Challenges of MPAs
Benefits
Challenges
Achieving diverse objectives Balancing stress Separating Com Recre competing merci ationa al l fisheri activities fisheri es
Conflicts of objectives
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Conse rvatio n
Conflicts of the allocation of Touris Educa mconservation tion burdens and benefits
Calls for Just MPA management
The Promise of Sydney To construct an effective and just conservation based on social justice and environmental responsibility.
The USs Environmental Justice Movements
The Love Canal controversy in 1978 The Warren County landfill controversy in 1982 A United Church of Christs report Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States, in 1987 The 1991 National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit that produced the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice
Contributions Introducing rights to environment into environmental governance Raising an awareness of recognition while making environmental decisions Developing a goal-like environmental justice approach to combat legal discrimination, poverty and inequality.
Solutions to MPA Management Challenges
Benefits of MPA management
Challenges of MPA management
Solutions inspired by the US Environmental justice movements
Achieving diverse objectives
Conflicts of objectives
Developing and legalising rights to sustainable development
Balancing stress
Conflicts of the allocation of conservation burdens and benefits
Adopting recognition
Separating competing activities
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