Assessing
Change, Determining Impacts, Guiding Long-Term Management for Sanctuary
Users
Socioeconomic
research and monitoring helps us understand the effects of the MPA
Network on human spatial use patterns and associated market and
non-market values, local and regional economies, and marine resource
user attitudes and perceptions. The Sanctuary developed an explicit
three-year social science plan (2007-2010) to acquire and analyze
scientifically rigorous socioeconomic data on all human uses of
the Sanctuary. Objectives are to: (i) test socioeconomic predictions
made prior to marine reserve network establishment, (ii) monitor
human-sanctuary interactions to inform adaptive management, and
(ii) contribute to an ecosystem-based approach to management.
Socioeconomic
research and monitoring helps us understand the effects of the MPA
Network on human spatial use patterns and associated market and
non-market values, local and regional economies, and marine resource
user attitudes and perceptions. The Sanctuary developed an explicit
three-year social science plan (2007-2010) to acquire and analyze
scientifically rigorous socioeconomic data on all human uses of
the Sanctuary. Objectives are to: (i) test socioeconomic predictions
made prior to marine reserve network establishment, (ii) monitor
human-sanctuary interactions to inform adaptive management, and
(ii) contribute to an ecosystem-based approach to management.
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