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… Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas The MPA Plan of Action for IUCN’s … Areas are part of a coherent network. ■ Since 1984 the spatial extent of marine area protected globally has grown at … help ensure continuity between such events and help the planning and development of new ones. WCPA – Marine will …

… people depend upon healthy ocean ecosystems.The role that marine protected areas (MPAs) can play in promoting the … Size and shape o what are the best practices for planning and implementing mpa networks? 6 Clearly define … are set in context? 8 Economic and social considerations Spatial and temporal considerations Scientific and …

… ecological networks, reserve networks, bioregional planning, biological or conservation corridors and … Green Network has been developed from its inception as a spatial-planning tool for the purpose of balancing and … plan, and account is also taken of the 1995 Protection of Marine and Freshwater Coasts, Shores and Banks Act that …

… the ‘ecological’ approach – driven by a science-based planning scheme – and the ‘cultural’ issues have always been … from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological … and recognised as such, “to make a better use of the spatial planning as the correct arena and instrument”20 for …

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Checklist of issues for planning linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … biodiversity. A second challenge relates to the differing spatial scales at which linkages are incorporated in … an area of 31,500 ha (plus an additional 5000 ha of marine areas and corralline reefs), the Talamanca-Carribbean …