Tracking the debate around marine protected areas: key issues and the BEG framework

Thorpe, Andy, Bavinck, Maarten and Coulthard, Sarah (2011) Tracking the debate around marine protected areas: key issues and the BEG framework. Environmental Management, 47 (4). pp. 546-563. ISSN 0364-152X

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Abstract

Marine conservation is often criticized for a mono-disciplinary approach, which delivers fragmented solutions to complex problems with differing interpretations of success. As a means of reflecting on the breadth and range of scientific research on the management of the marine environment, this paper develops an analytical framework to gauge the foci of policy documents and published scientific work on Marine Protected Areas. We evaluate the extent to which MPA research articles delineate objectives around three domains: biological-ecological [B]; economic-social[E]; and governance-management [G]. This permits us to develop an analytic [BEG] framework which we then test on a sample of selected journal article cohorts. While the framework reveals the dominance of biologically focussed research [B], analysis also reveals a growing frequency of the use of governance/management terminology in the literature over the last 15 years, which may be indicative of a shift towards more integrated consideration of governance concerns. However, consideration of the economic/social domain appears to lag behind biological and governance concerns in both frequency and presence in MPA literature.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marine protected area, governance, marine fisheries, content analysis
Subjects:	F700 Ocean Sciences F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2013 09:02
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:31
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/12379

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