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… people depend upon healthy ocean ecosystems.The role that marine protected areas (MPAs) can play in promoting the … into meaningful action. Yet global progress on building marine protected area (MPA) networks has been slow, in part … of industries such as fisheries and tourism and improved pollution control. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Numerous individuals and …

… Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas The MPA Plan of Action for IUCN’s … as: Laffoley, D. d’A., (ed.) 2008. Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas. The MPA Plan of Action for IUCN’s … from the impact of extractive industries, localised pollution, and changes to its chemistry (ocean acidification) …

… plan, and account is also taken of the 1995 Protection of Marine and Freshwater Coasts, Shores and Banks Act that … – was an important source of income, overfishing and pollution cut yields dramatically in the course of the … policies, regulations and institutional arrangements for marine ecosystem conservation and sustainable use in order to …

… from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological … Future plans for the region include the creation of marine and coastal protected areas and inland there are aims … with the protected Lakes Prespa and Ohrid. On the coast, marine habitats such as beaches and lagoons are interrelated …

… degradation. It has little influence on point sources of pollution, such as effluent pipes, sewers and drains. … an area of 31,500 ha (plus an additional 5000 ha of marine areas and corralline reefs), the Talamanca-Carribbean … 1994. Role of buffer strips in management of waterway pollution: a review. Environmental Management 18: 543–58. …