Optimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas.

The design of protected areas, whether marine or terrestrial, rarely considers how people respond to the imposition of no-take sites with complete or incomplete enforcement. Consequently, these protected areas may fail to achieve their intended goal. We present and solve a spatial bio-economic model in which a manager chooses the optimal location, size, and enforcement level of a marine protected area (MPA). This manager acts as a Stackelberg leader, and her choices consider villagers’ best response to the MPA in a spatial Nash equilibrium of fishing site and effort decisions. Relevant to lower income country settings but general to other settings, we incorporate limited enforcement budgets, distance costs of traveling to fishing sites, and labor allocation to onshore wage opportunities. The optimal MPA varies markedly across alternative manager goals and budget sizes, but always induce changes in villagers’ decisions as a function of distance, dispersal, and wage. We consider MPA managers with ecological conservation goals and with economic goals, and identify the shortcomings of several common manager decision rules, including those focused on: (1) fishery outcomes rather than broader economic goals, (2) fish stocks at MPA sites rather than across the full marinescape, (3) absolute levels rather than additional values, and (4) costless enforcement. Our results demonstrate that such naïve or overly narrow decision rules can lead to inefficient MPA designs that miss economic and conservation opportunities.

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Main Authors: Albers, H.J., Preonas, L., Capitán, T., Robinson, E.J.Z., Madrigal-Ballestero, R. 89292
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Published: 2020
Subjects:AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS, ECOLOGIA, DINAMICA, PECES, TOMA DE DECISIONES, SOLUCION, PARAMETROS, GERENTES, POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES, PAISAJE,
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spelling KOHA-OAI-BVE:1486912022-03-14T04:11:49ZOptimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas. Albers, H.J. Preonas, L. Capitán, T. Robinson, E.J.Z. Madrigal-Ballestero, R. 89292 text2020spaThe design of protected areas, whether marine or terrestrial, rarely considers how people respond to the imposition of no-take sites with complete or incomplete enforcement. Consequently, these protected areas may fail to achieve their intended goal. We present and solve a spatial bio-economic model in which a manager chooses the optimal location, size, and enforcement level of a marine protected area (MPA). This manager acts as a Stackelberg leader, and her choices consider villagers’ best response to the MPA in a spatial Nash equilibrium of fishing site and effort decisions. Relevant to lower income country settings but general to other settings, we incorporate limited enforcement budgets, distance costs of traveling to fishing sites, and labor allocation to onshore wage opportunities. The optimal MPA varies markedly across alternative manager goals and budget sizes, but always induce changes in villagers’ decisions as a function of distance, dispersal, and wage. We consider MPA managers with ecological conservation goals and with economic goals, and identify the shortcomings of several common manager decision rules, including those focused on: (1) fishery outcomes rather than broader economic goals, (2) fish stocks at MPA sites rather than across the full marinescape, (3) absolute levels rather than additional values, and (4) costless enforcement. Our results demonstrate that such naïve or overly narrow decision rules can lead to inefficient MPA designs that miss economic and conservation opportunities.The design of protected areas, whether marine or terrestrial, rarely considers how people respond to the imposition of no-take sites with complete or incomplete enforcement. Consequently, these protected areas may fail to achieve their intended goal. We present and solve a spatial bio-economic model in which a manager chooses the optimal location, size, and enforcement level of a marine protected area (MPA). This manager acts as a Stackelberg leader, and her choices consider villagers’ best response to the MPA in a spatial Nash equilibrium of fishing site and effort decisions. Relevant to lower income country settings but general to other settings, we incorporate limited enforcement budgets, distance costs of traveling to fishing sites, and labor allocation to onshore wage opportunities. The optimal MPA varies markedly across alternative manager goals and budget sizes, but always induce changes in villagers’ decisions as a function of distance, dispersal, and wage. We consider MPA managers with ecological conservation goals and with economic goals, and identify the shortcomings of several common manager decision rules, including those focused on: (1) fishery outcomes rather than broader economic goals, (2) fish stocks at MPA sites rather than across the full marinescape, (3) absolute levels rather than additional values, and (4) costless enforcement. Our results demonstrate that such naïve or overly narrow decision rules can lead to inefficient MPA designs that miss economic and conservation opportunities.AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS ECOLOGIADINAMICAPECESTOMA DE DECISIONES SOLUCIONPARAMETROSGERENTESPOLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES PAISAJEhttps://repositorio.bibliotecaorton.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10302
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topic AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS
ECOLOGIA
DINAMICA
PECES
TOMA DE DECISIONES
SOLUCION
PARAMETROS
GERENTES
POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES
PAISAJE
AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS
ECOLOGIA
DINAMICA
PECES
TOMA DE DECISIONES
SOLUCION
PARAMETROS
GERENTES
POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES
PAISAJE
spellingShingle AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS
ECOLOGIA
DINAMICA
PECES
TOMA DE DECISIONES
SOLUCION
PARAMETROS
GERENTES
POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES
PAISAJE
AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS
ECOLOGIA
DINAMICA
PECES
TOMA DE DECISIONES
SOLUCION
PARAMETROS
GERENTES
POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES
PAISAJE
Albers, H.J.
Preonas, L.
Capitán, T.
Robinson, E.J.Z.
Madrigal-Ballestero, R. 89292
Optimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas.
description The design of protected areas, whether marine or terrestrial, rarely considers how people respond to the imposition of no-take sites with complete or incomplete enforcement. Consequently, these protected areas may fail to achieve their intended goal. We present and solve a spatial bio-economic model in which a manager chooses the optimal location, size, and enforcement level of a marine protected area (MPA). This manager acts as a Stackelberg leader, and her choices consider villagers’ best response to the MPA in a spatial Nash equilibrium of fishing site and effort decisions. Relevant to lower income country settings but general to other settings, we incorporate limited enforcement budgets, distance costs of traveling to fishing sites, and labor allocation to onshore wage opportunities. The optimal MPA varies markedly across alternative manager goals and budget sizes, but always induce changes in villagers’ decisions as a function of distance, dispersal, and wage. We consider MPA managers with ecological conservation goals and with economic goals, and identify the shortcomings of several common manager decision rules, including those focused on: (1) fishery outcomes rather than broader economic goals, (2) fish stocks at MPA sites rather than across the full marinescape, (3) absolute levels rather than additional values, and (4) costless enforcement. Our results demonstrate that such naïve or overly narrow decision rules can lead to inefficient MPA designs that miss economic and conservation opportunities.
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ECOLOGIA
DINAMICA
PECES
TOMA DE DECISIONES
SOLUCION
PARAMETROS
GERENTES
POLÍTICAS AMBIENTALES
PAISAJE
author Albers, H.J.
Preonas, L.
Capitán, T.
Robinson, E.J.Z.
Madrigal-Ballestero, R. 89292
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