Engaging local stakeholders is a central feature of many biodiversity conservation and
natural resource management projects globally. Current literature on engagement …

Well‐designed and effectively managed networks of marine reserves can be effective tools
for both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation. Connectivity, the demographic …

This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory
we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the …

Most applications of systematic conservation planning have not effectively incorporated
biological processes or dynamic threats. We investigated the extent to which connectivity …

The six Coral Triangle countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,
Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste—each have evolving systems of marine protected areas …

Benefits humans rely on from the ocean–marine ecosystem services–are increasingly
vulnerable under future climate. This paper reviews how three valued services have, and …

This study empirically investigates the influence of bridging organizations on governance
outcomes for marine conservation in Indonesia. Conservation challenges require ways of …

Ecological habitats with greater structural complexity contain more species due to increased
niche diversity. This is especially apparent on coral reefs where individual coral colonies …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are the most extensively implemented fisheries
management and conservation tool in the Philippines. Most MPAs have been established …

Indonesia has adopted the establishment of regional (sub-national) marine protected areas
(RMPAs) as a key strategy for achieving ambitious national marine spatial management …