Supporting the development of marine protected area management plans based on fundamental science

支持制定基于基础科学的海洋保护区管理规划

• 批准号: NE/P00668X/1
• 负责人: Katherine Yates
• 金额: $ 14.14万
• 依托单位: University of Salford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FP00668X%2F1
• 关键词: Supporting; development; marine; protected; area

The UK has an extensive network of marine protected areas (MPAs) and they form a fundamental part of the UK marine conservation and management strategy. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is responsible for the 77 English Marine protected areas. Of these, less than a third currently have a management plan. Management plans have been shown to be essential for effective MPA implementation; without them MPAs are less likely to meet their objectives. Lack of management plans for the UK Natura sites, a network of European protected areas, has led to the UK facing possible infraction charges from Europe for being in breach of our duties under the Habitats Directive, which could result in substantial fines. Thus there is a need for the MMO to develop a large number of robust MPA management plans, quickly. MPA management plans can have substantial consequences, not just for the marine environment they are designed to protect, but also for the coastal communities that depend on marine resources. Both ecological and socio-economic impacts must be considered alongside resourcing, feasibility, existing management provisions and the plethora of policy and legislation associated with UK MPAs. Just like the designation of MPAs, it is essential that the development of management plans is strategic, holistic, and uses the best available science.The overarching aim of this three year project is to support the development of marine protected area management plans, underpinned by cutting edge science. The project will work in close conjunction with the marine management community (MMO, DEFRA, JNCC, CEFAS and Natural England) and outputs will be tailored to maximise their utility to the ongoing work of the MMO. The project will entail a series of strategic literature reviews and an estimated nine workshops. Workshops will be attended by both members of the marine management community and researchers, and they will focus on either filling gaps in the knowledge or developing decision support tools. In years one and two, the project will develop and populate a database on English MPAs, including the features they are designated for and the socio-economics of the coastal community's local to them. The project will also develop a classification scheme, in conjunction with the MMO, which will be used to categorise the strength of evidence contained within that database. In the third year, two workshops will be held to develop a matrix of different MPA management options. Finally, over two further workshops, a decision support framework for MPA management plans will be developed and trialled. This project will involve reviewing both completed and ongoing research and will be supported by a range of academics, including: Professor Callum Roberts, Dr Jan Hiddink, Professor Simon Jennings and Professor Hugh Possingham.The project also aims to contribute to future NERC-MMO partnerships activities. Part of this project will involve feeding back to researchers about how they can tailor their research outputs and plan future projects to increase their utility for informing marine protected area management decisions, and hence how they can increase the impact of their work. This part of the project will undertaken in collaboration with Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gallop at University of Plymouth, who is a current NERC KE Fellow undertaking a related project KE project.This project will advance the uptake of science into marine management decisions by improving availability of evidence and by providing a framework to support the incorporation of that evidence into governance. In doing so, it will contribute to increasing the impact of associated academic research. The outputs of this project will aid decision makers to simultaneously consider the complex marine environment, the diverse range of stakeholders that use it, the plethora of both national and international policy and legislation, and the realities of resource availability.

英国拥有广泛的海洋保护区网络，它们构成了英国海洋保护和管理战略的基本组成部分。英国的77个海洋保护区由海洋管理组织(MMO)负责。在这些公司中，目前只有不到三分之一的公司制定了管理计划。管理计划已被证明是有效执行《海洋保护区》的关键；没有管理计划，海洋保护区就不太可能实现其目标。英国自然保护区是一个由欧洲保护区组成的网络，由于缺乏管理计划，英国可能面临来自欧洲的违规指控，因为它违反了我们根据栖息地指令的义务，这可能会导致巨额罚款。因此，MMO需要迅速制定大量强有力的MPA管理计划。MPA管理计划可能产生重大后果，不仅对它们旨在保护的海洋环境，而且对依赖海洋资源的沿海社区也是如此。必须同时考虑生态和社会经济影响，同时考虑资源、可行性、现有管理规定以及与英国海洋保护区相关的过多政策和立法。就像指定海洋保护区一样，管理计划的制定必须是战略性的、全面的，并利用现有的最佳科学。这项为期三年的项目的总体目标是支持以尖端科学为基础的海洋保护区管理计划的制定。该项目将与海洋管理界(MMO、DEFRA、JNCC、CEFAS和Natural England)密切合作，并将对产出进行调整，以最大限度地发挥其对MMO正在进行的工作的效用。该项目将包括一系列战略文献审查和估计9个讲习班。海洋管理界成员和研究人员将参加讲习班，他们将侧重于填补知识空白或开发决策支持工具。在第一年和第二年，该项目将开发和填充一个关于英语海洋保护区的数据库，包括它们的指定特征和沿海社区的社会经济状况。该项目还将与MMO一起制定一个分类方案，用于对该数据库中所含证据的强度进行分类。在第三年，将举办两次讲习班，以制定一系列不同的物质管理方案。最后，在另外两个讲习班上，将制定和试行针对MPA管理计划的决策支持框架。该项目将审查已完成和正在进行的研究，并将得到一系列学者的支持，包括：卡勒姆·罗伯茨教授、简·希丁克博士、西蒙·詹宁斯教授和休·波辛汉姆教授。该项目还旨在为未来的NERC-MMO伙伴关系活动做出贡献。该项目的一部分将涉及向研究人员反馈如何调整他们的研究成果和规划未来的项目，以增加他们为海洋保护区管理决定提供信息的效用，从而他们如何能够增加他们工作的影响。该项目的这一部分将与普利茅斯大学的阿比盖尔·麦夸特斯-盖洛普博士合作进行，他目前是NERC KE研究员，正在开展一个相关的KE项目。该项目将通过改善证据的可用性和提供一个框架来支持将这些证据纳入治理，从而促进将科学纳入海洋管理决策。通过这样做，它将有助于增加相关学术研究的影响。该项目的成果将有助于决策者同时考虑复杂的海洋环境、使用海洋环境的各种利益攸关方、过多的国家和国际政策和立法，以及资源可获得性的现实。

项目成果

Conserving European biodiversity across realms

• DOI: 10.1111/conl.12586
• 发表时间: 2019-01-01
• 期刊: CONSERVATION LETTERS
• 影响因子: 8.5
• 作者: Giakoumi, Sylvaine;Hermoso, Virgilio;Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N.
• 通讯作者: Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N.

Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science

海景生态学：确定新兴海洋可持续性科学的研究重点

• DOI: 10.3354/meps13661
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Pittman S

Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

促进欧洲及邻近海域海洋保护的十二项建议

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.565968
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Frontiers in Marine Science
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Katsanevakis S

Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future

• DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.015
• 发表时间: 2020-06-01
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
• 影响因子: 6
• 作者: McKinley, Emma;Acott, Tim;Yates, Katherine L.
• 通讯作者: Yates, Katherine L.