The Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on September 30th, 2009

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  Community-Based MPAs: Case study in Puerto Morelos, Mexico

  

  Rodríguez-Martínez, R. E. “Community involvement in marine protected areas: The case of Puerto Morelos reef, México.” Journal of Environmental Management 88.4 (2008): 1151-60.

  Summary
  Using marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool for conservation can be effective, especially when local stakeholders, government agencies and communities take an active role in the planning and decision-making processes. [...]

• This Week's Comment

  Posted on September 3rd, 2009

  Written by jseda

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  Why Conserve our Marine Ecosystems?

  

  Owens, Susan. 2008. Why conserve marine environments? (Comment). Environmental Conservation 35(1):1-4.

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  The urgency to promote the conservation of marine environments is analyzed by Owens (2008) as a moral injunction that involves acknowledging the right or wrong in using these systems for human benefit. The majority of the literature addressing this subject is in agreement that [...]

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