Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements
Features
- Answers basic questions, dispels myths, and defines terms
- Guides users in evaluating and implementing new in-water marine conservation agreement projects
- Provides over 20 in-depth case studies and inventories over 100 projects
- Assesses the legal and policy frameworks for marine conservation agreements in specific geographies
- Identifies where relevant spatial data can be accessed
- Provides information on contacts and funding, publications and presentations, related tools, sample agreements, and conferences
Overview
Marine conservation agreements include any formal or informal contractual arrangement that aims to achieve ocean or coastal conservation goals in which one or more parties, usually right-holders, commit to taking certain actions, refraining from certain actions, or transferring certain rights and responsibilities in exchange for one or more other parties, usually conservation-oriented entities, committing to deliver explicit (direct or indirect) economic incentives. The MCA Field Guide defines a conservation-oriented entity as a person (or family), business, government agency, nongovernmental organization, or organized group.
The Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements helps organizations determine
- What marine conservation agreements are;
- When these agreements can be used to abate threats to oceans and coasts; and
- How to develop and implement a marine conservation agreement project.