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Economics of Marine Protected Areas: Assessing the Literature for Marine Protected Area Network Expansions

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  • Heidi J. Albers

    (Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA)

  • Madison F. Ashworth

    (Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA)

Abstract

Marine protected areas (MPAs) provide both conservation and economic benefits. Recent international conservation actors have called for a dramatic increase in the area of MPAs from almost 8% to 30% of marine area by 2030 in a policy called 30X30. Both the economics and conservation science literatures consider MPA decisions and MPA impact, although the economics literature focuses on fishery economic outcomes. This review uses an optimization framework for MPA decisions as a lens through which to evaluate the economics literature on MPAs in the context of the 30X30 expansion decisions. We argue for more economic analysis of MPA policy questions, including those around siting, design, restrictions, and management choices; impact evaluation; responses of people; low-income country settings and incomplete enforcement; spatial settings without metapopulations; and conservation rather than harvest objectives.

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  • Heidi J. Albers & Madison F. Ashworth, 2022. "Economics of Marine Protected Areas: Assessing the Literature for Marine Protected Area Network Expansions," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 14(1), pages 533-554, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:anr:reseco:v:14:y:2022:p:533-554
    DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-024652
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    Cited by:

    1. Reynaert, Mathias & Souza-Rodrigues, Eduardo & van Benthem, Arthur A., 2024. "The environmental impacts of protected area policy," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    2. Heidi J. Albers, 2022. "Protected Area Network Expansion and Management: Economics to improve conservation outcomes," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 83(4), pages 955-972, December.

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    Keywords

    30X30; conservation; no-take; prioritization; reserves; spatial; systematic conservation planning;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
    • Q22 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Fishery
    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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