Environment Directorate
Marine Protected Areas
Economics, Management and Effective Policy Mixes
Published on June 05, 2017
Intense exploitation of our oceans and seas is degrading marine biodiversity and ecosystems
at an alarming rate. This report presents good practice insights for effectively managing
marine protected areas (MPAs), one of the policy instruments available for the conservation
and sustainable use of marine biodiversity and ecosystems. While global coverage of
MPAs has been increasing over the past two decades, further efforts are required to
meet the target under the Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure they are effective.Drawing
on the literature and numerous examples from developed and developing countries, this
book highlights how the environmental and cost effectiveness of MPAs can be enhanced.
It covers issues including the benefits and costs of MPAs, the need for more strategic
siting of MPAs, monitoring and compliance, sustainable finance for MPAs, and the need
to embed these in a wider policy mix so as to address the multiple pressures on marine
ecosystems.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Foreword and acknowledgements | |
| Acronyms and abbreviations | |
| Executive summary | |
| Marine biodiversity, the role of marine protected areas and good practice insights | |
| The benefits and costs of marine protected areas | |
| Effective design and management of marine protected areas | |
| Sustainable financing of marine protected areas | |
| Effective policy mixes for marine biodiversity |
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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - 5 JUNE 2017
- Launch of this report on World Environment Day and at the occasion of the UN SDG 14 Oceans Conference in New York, 5-9 June 2017
REPORTS AND BLOGS
- Under the sea, OECD Observer
- Indicators on Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas: Methodology and Results for OECD and G20 countries, Environment Working Paper
- The Ocean Economy in 2030
- List of publications related to biodiversity
- Blogs related to biodiversity
OECD side events AT the united nations ocean conference (5-9 June 2017)
- Sharing effective area-based planning practices for sustainable oceans – OECD presentation: Economics and effective management of marine protected areas
- Marine Protected Areas: SDG Catalysts? – OECD presentation: Marine Protected Areas: Are they worth it?
- Towards a sustainable blue future: Fiscal incentives to achieve SDG 14 - OECD presentation: Role of fiscal policy in achieving sustainable oceans, and measuring support to fisheries by Katia Karousakis and Roger Martini
MARINE PROTECTED AREAS - POLICY HIGHLIGHTS
Download the Policy Highlights (PDF version)
OCEANS - WHAT'S HAPPENING IN 2017-18
Download the brochure (PDF version)
OECD AT THE PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE UN CONFERENCE ON SDG14 (OCEANS, SEAS and MARINE RESOURCES) - FEBRUARY 2017 - NEW YORK
- Marine Protected Areas are key to ensuring better conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity and the oceans. The OECD side-event "Delivering on Sustainable Oceans for the SDGs" covered OECD work of the above report; the OECD report on The Ocean Economy in 2030; and the OECD Data on Fisheries Support Estimate.
OECD AT THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (COP13) - DECEMBER 2016 - CANCUN
- OECD presentation on sustainable finance of marine protected areas at the side event of "Innovative financial mechanisms for long-term biodiversity conservation: Insights from international co-operation experience, co-hosted by IDDRI, GIZ, IUCN-France.
- Katia Karousakis, OECD expert, presented on MPAs and their role in ecosystem provision, sustainable fisheries and tourism at the UNCTAD/UNEP/CAF side event on Oceans Economy and Ecosystems Services. The side event raised awareness and discussed novel international and regional approaches to address harmful incentives to marine biodiversity and ecosystem conservation and maximise the use of beneficial ones in key sustainable oceans economic sector such as fisheries and tourism, and their interlinkages under an ecosystem approach, for the advancement of SDG14 and Aichi targets.
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CONTACT AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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