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Title: | Tradeoffs in marine reserve design: habitat condition, representation, and socioeconomic costs | Contributor(s): | Klein, Carissa J (author); Tulloch, Visitskaia J (author); Halpern, Benjamin S (author); Selkoe, Kimberley A (author); Watts, Matthew (author) ; Steinback, Charles (author); Scholz, Astrid (author); Possingham, Hugh P (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1111/conl.12005 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20338 | Abstract: | We present a novel method for designing marine reserves that trades off three important attributes of a conservation plan: habitat condition, habitat representation, and socioeconomic costs. We calculated habitat condition in four ways, using different human impacts as a proxy for condition: all impacts; impacts that cannot be managed with a reserve; land-based impacts; and climate change impacts. We demonstrate our approach in California, where three important tradeoffs emerged. First, reserve systems that have a high chance of protecting good condition habitats cost fishers less than 3.1% of their income. Second, cost to fishers can be reduced by 1/2-2/3 by triaging less than 1/3 of habitats. Finally, increasing the probability of protecting good condition habitats from 50% to 99% costs fishers an additional 1.7% of their income, with roughly 0.3% added costs for each additional 10% confidence. Knowing exactly what the cost of these tradeoffs are informs discussion and potential compromise among stakeholders involved in protected area planning worldwide. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Conservation Letters, 6(5), p. 324-332 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1755-263X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 050299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified 080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 410199 Climate change impacts and adaptation not elsewhere classified 460507 Information extraction and fusion |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960599 Ecosystem Assessment and Management not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 189999 Other environmental management not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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