... these social complexities (and design appropriate decision-making processes) are advancing; but many prevalent stakeholder engagement processes fail to investigate and reconcile the deeper social conflicts that operate as wellsprings for protracted conflict in marine conservation. Conservation conflict...

.... As this interdisciplinary field has deepened our understanding of oceans past, so too has it become increasingly relevant to conservation, management, and policy. In this book, we focus on four critical challenges that confront marine conservation: (1) recovering endangered species; (2) conserving fisheries; (3) restoring...

...Figure 13.1 Schematical representation of selected marine food webs before and after intense fishing from Jackson et al. ( 2001 ). Marine conservation priorities have been established mostly on the basis of species and habitat diversity, but little attention has been paid to food web diversity...

... the levels of conflict associated with disputes surrounding resource access and tenure systems in order to better understand the challenges of park implementation and marine conservation. Using the levels of conflict model to analyze the dispute over land tenure and access to marine resources, this chapter...

... humans attach to wildlife can both influence the perception of human–wildlife conflict and guide efforts to reduce conflict and aid conservation efforts. How people talk about marine conservation, specific species, and human–wildlife conflict is not only a reflection of how they see the world but also...

... integration ecosystem restoration historical ecology marine conservation ocean policy fisheries restoration endangered species In 1938, Howard Granville Sharpe was working on his small ranch, 13 miles south of Carmel on the Big Sur coast in California, when he spied something strange in the kelp beds...

... H G Skiftesvik A B Trippel E A Werner R G marine fishes life cycle early life stages biology ecology fishes larval fish aquaculture marine conservation ...

... fisheries had been over-fished, and three-fourths of the coral reefs were being eroded. This chapter profiles Apo Island, one of the oldest marine protected areas in the country; the scientific research on marine conservation and coastal resource management that led to its creation; and the challenges...

... international law background against which the Agreements are set before turning to the Agreements themselves. Cetaceans Small cetaceans Whaling Law of the Sea Convention Biodiversity Convention Baltic Dumping cetaceans Mediterranean Sea small cetaceans marine conservation Large cetaceans have been...

... perspective and analysis that of con- servation conflict transformation. Adopting a conservation conflict transformation perspec- tive has enabled our authors to gain new and deeper insights into the social conflict and systemic complexity in their case studies in marine conservation. Conservation conflict...