Improving governance of marine protected areas in Tasmania, Australia ...

• Main Author: Garcia Imhof, C
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23239745; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Improving_governance_of_marine_protected_areas_in_Tasmania_Australia/23239745

Marine ecosystems provide a variety of benefits to humans, including nature-based tourism, food production, and livelihoods for local people. Protected areas have been considered one of the most important tools to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity, state parties have pledged to establish comprehensive, representative and effective systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2020. Over the past decades, Tasmania has made some progress in establishing a system of MPAs. However, in 2009 the process stalled following the contentious designation of MPAs in the Bruny Bioregion. The Tasmanian MPA system today covers almost six per cent of Tasmanian State Waters, but over half surrounds subantarctic Macquarie Island. Many Tasmanian marine bioregions are not adequately represented in the reserve system, and four bioregions have no MPAs. Governance plays a key role in the success of MPA designation and implementation. The aim of this thesis was to understand how ...