Governance, not design, rules European Atlantic Marine Protected Areas performance

Inmaculada Álvarez-Fernández, Noela Sánchez-Carnero, Juan Freire (2024). Governance, not design, rules European Atlantic MPA performance. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 71, 103419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103419 We studied 125 NE Atlantic Marine Protected Areas (MPA) managed by 56 management plans (MgP) to test the hypothesis that MgP design and implementation and governance processes affect MPA performance using 8 …