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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.008
	Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas?
	Weber de Morais G.; Schlüter A.; Verweij M.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	31
英文摘要	The debate about the governance aspects of marine protected areas has increased considerably over the last few years. Growing pressure on coastal and marine resources, international conservation targets set for 2020, and the persistence of 'paper parks' (i.e. only nominally declared) are some of the main reasons behind this trend. Based on the assumption that the prevalence of paper parks is associated with shortcomings in their institutional design, this article explores how institutional change theories, mainly from historical institutionalism, could add to the understanding of marine protected area governance. First, mechanisms leading to either stability or change of institutions are reviewed. Then, examples from existing literature are used to illustrate how these mechanisms might be preventing or enhancing the progress of marine protected areas. The focus is on developing countries where poorly functioning marine protected areas seem to be the norm rather than the exception. The analysis reveals that institutional change theories can be a helpful analytical tool to examine how institutions encompassing well-known challenges of marine protected areas, such as terrestrial conservation poorly adapted to marine ecosystems, imported conservation paradigms not fitting local realities, and difficulties posed by an incoherence of policies and top-down approaches to management, have developed over time. Conditions leading actors to notice these problems and take action to solve them as well as how they go about implementing changes are also explored. Finally, it is suggested that the issues raised here regarding the persistence of problems and how they are being tackled, especially those concerning the political process, can be beneficial to other fields of environmental governance. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Environmental governance; Institutional change; Institutions; Marine protected areas
学科领域	conservation planning; developing world; environmental legislation; institutional development; marine ecosystem; protected area; top-down approach
语种	英语
scopus关键词	conservation planning; developing world; environmental legislation; institutional development; marine ecosystem; protected area; top-down approach
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117527
作者单位	Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstr. 6, Bremen, 28359, Germany; Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, Bremen, 28759, Germany; MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Str., Bremen, 28359, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Weber de Morais G.,Schlüter A.,Verweij M.. Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas?[J],2015,31.
APA	Weber de Morais G.,Schlüter A.,&Verweij M..(2015).Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas?.Global Environmental Change,31.
MLA	Weber de Morais G.,et al."Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas?".Global Environmental Change 31(2015).