Marine Protected Areas

Joachim Claudet is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Perpignan, France. An ecologist, he specializes in MPAs, environmental impact assessment studies and coastal management. He also teaches international workshops on MPAs.

'For those working in any one area related to MPAs this will be a valuable source of information on the linkages among them, and an inspiring insight into the wider dimensions, right up to the global scale.' Frontiers of Biogeography

• Introduction; Part I. Threats on Marine Ecosystems and Resources: 1. Transitioning from single-sector management of marine resources to ecosystem-based management: what can marine protected areas offer? Simonetta Fraschetti, Joachim Claudet and Kirsten Grorud-Colvert; Part II. Effects of Marine Protected Areas; 2. Ecological effects of marine protected areas: conservation, restoration and functioning Joachim Claudet, Paolo Guidetti, David Mouillot, Nick T. Shears and Fiorenza Micheli; 3. Effects of marine protected areas on adjacent fisheries: evidence from empirical studies Raquel Goñi, Fabio Badalamenti and Mark H. Tupper; 4. Economically optimal spatial and inter-temporal fishing patterns in a metapopulation James N. Sanchirico; 5. Social dynamics of scaling-up marine protected area declarations and management Patrick Christie and Richard Pollnac; Part III. Assessment of Marine Protected Area Effectiveness: 6. Assessing effects of marine protected areas: confounding in space and possible solutions Craig W. Osenderg, Jeff Shima, Sonja Miller and Adrian C. Stier; 7. Monitoring fisheries effects of marine protected areas: current approaches and the need for integrated assessments Vanessa Stelzenmüller and John Pinnegar; 8. Bioeconomic analysis of marine protected area fisheries effects Jean Boncoeur, Olivier Thébaud and Frédérique Alban; 9. Assessing the impact of marine protected areas on society's well-being: an economic perspective Frédérique Alban, Jean Boncoeur and Nicolas Roncin; 10. Constructing and validating indicators of marine protected area effectiveness Dominique Pelletier; Part IV. Scale-up of Marine Protected Area Systems: 11. The assessment of marine reserve networks: guidelines for ecological evaluation Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Joachim Claudet, Mark Carr, Jenn Caselle, Jon Day, Alan Friedlander, Sarah Lester, Thierri Lison de Loma, Brian Tissot and Dan Malone; 12. Spacing a network of marine protected areas based on connectivity data Serge Planes; 13. Effectiveness of the global network of marine protected areas Camilo Mora; 14. Conserving the largest habitat on earth: protected areas in the pelagic ocean Alistair Hobday, Edward T. Game, Hedley Grantham and Anthony J. Richardson; Index.