Marine Protected Areas

After ten years as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, London, for whom his work in Africa won a Queen’s award, John Humphreys moved to the south coast of England where he has served as non-executive director of a port and harbour authority and as chair of a UK inshore fisheries and conservation authority. He is currently visiting professor at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Marine Sciences and President of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. His other books for Elsevier include Marine Protected Areas: Science Policy and Management.Robert is a fisheries and conservation manager with 20 years of practical experience of developing and implementing coastal and marine fisheries management. Robert holds degrees in Environmental Protection, Coastal Management and an MBA (Open). The majority of his career has been spent working in fisheries and MPA management and planning in the UK. He worked extensively as a sea going enforcement officer and qualified as a helmsman with the RNLI with extensive prior search and rescue experience. He has been responsible for developing and implementing successful strategy to turn around some of the poorest performing fisheries in the UK and in so doing delivering both conservation as well as economic benefits. Robert is a Council Member of the Institute of Fisheries Management and Chief Officer for the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority where he has overall responsibility for delivering MPA and fisheries management strategy.

• Foreword: Progress towards the conservation and sustainable use of the oceasn: targets and challengesPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: POLICY1. A critical history of marine protected areas2. Marine protected areas and marine spatial planning - allocation of resource use and environmental protection3. Challenges facing marine protected areas in Southern African countries in light of the expanding ocean economies in the sub-region4. The South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf Marine Protected Area: towards the establishment of marine spatial protection within the international waters in the Southern Ocean5. Uneasy Bedfellows: Fisheries and the search for space for Marine Conservation Zones in English Waters6. The role of coastal communities in the sustainable management of marine protected areas7.  The use of natural capital in the choice, management and evaluation of MPAs8. Some consequences of policy instabilities for marine protecred area management 9. Managing marine protected areas in Europe: moving from 'feature-based' to 'whole-site; management of sites10. The role of UK Marine Protected Area management in contributing to sustainable development in the marine environment11. The law and marine protected areas: different regimes and their practical impacts in England12. Marine protected areas in the UK - conservation or recovery?13. South Africa's Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area - winners and losers PART TWO: MANAGEMENT14. Developing a fisheries management plan for the Pitcairn Islands Marine Protected Area15. Countering the threat of invaive species to the Galapagos marine reserve16. Balancing rural development and robust nature conservation - lessons learnt from Kosterhavet Marine National Park, Sweden 17. The Torre Guaceto marine protected area e what can we learn from this success story? 18. The challenges of establishing marine protected areas in South East Asia 19. Have you seen the dolphins? Dolphin watching participatory monitoring in a Brazilian multiple-use Marine Protected Area 20. A new approach to monitoring Marine Protected Area Management Success in the Dutch Caribbean 21. Crossing jurisdictions: the implementation of offshore marine protected areas in an international fishery22. A net positive effect? Assessing the impact on fishing opportunities within multiple-use MPAs. A case study from Scotland23. Managing a dredge fishery within a marine protected area: resolving environmental and socio-economic objectives24. Marine protected areas - the importance of positive partnerships and stakeholder engagement for delivering environmental outcomes in an estuary 25. Enforcement capabilities and compliance in English Marine Protected Areas: the art of the possiblePART THREE: SCIENCE26. Using science effectively: selection, design and management of marine protected areas27. How new science should affect the application of protection measures for UK estuarine shorebirds28. Verifying predictions of statistical models to define the size and shape of marine Special Protection Areas for foraging seabirds (terns)29. Developments in understanding of red-throated diver responses to offshore wind farms in marine Special Protection Areas 30. Sediment transport and Marine Protected Areas31. On sediment dispersal in the Whitsand Bay Marine Conservation Zone: neighbour to a closed dredge-spoil disposal site 32. Maintaining ecological resilience on a regional scale: coastal saline lagoons in a northern European marine protected area33. The adaptive capacity of the willow (Salix alba L.) to bridge the gap between MPAs and harbour entrances 34. Palaeoenvironmental determination of biogeochemistry and ecological response in an estuarine marine protected area35. Consequences of nitrate enrichment in a temperate estuarine marine protected area; response of the microbial primary producers and consequences formanagement36. Macroalgal mats in a eutrophic estuarine marine protected area: implications for benthic invertebrates and wading birds 37. Assessing the benefits of shellfish aquaculture in improving water quality in Poole Harbour, an estuarine Marine Protected Area38. Nitrogen pollution in coastal Marine Protected Areas: a river catchment partnership to plan and deliver targets in a UK estuarine Special Protection AreaPART FOUR: CONCLUDING REMARKS39. Marine Protected Areas: Quo Vadis?