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The Efficacy of Small Closures: A Tale of Two Marine Protected Areas in Canada

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Marine managers and conservationists increasingly emphasize the importance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a key tool for sustaining ocean ecosystems. The designation of MPAs often meets with resistance from stakeholders for reasons that include loss of access, unclear benefits, and misunderstanding of the nature of the intervention. In this chapter, we use case studies from two small MPAs on the east coast of Canada to illustrate the issues surrounding planning, implementing, and demonstrating their efficacy.

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Stanley, R., Morris, C., Snelgrove, P., Metaxas, A., Pepin, P. (2018). The Efficacy of Small Closures: A Tale of Two Marine Protected Areas in Canada. In: Brinkmann, R., Garren, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71389-2_11

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