Journal article
Recreation user knowledge, support and engagement in French MPAs: Are there reverse side-effects of the French soft regulation and management approach?
Marine Policy, Vol.104, pp.108-117
2019
Abstract
Marine and coastal recreation represents a common and increasing range of activities in marine protected areas (MPA). Understanding and factoring in the views of recreational stakeholders is considered an important component of effective MPA management. The diversity of recreation users and history of management can present stakeholder engagement challenges This paper presents the findings of a French MPA recreation user survey involving 1000 respondents across 7 recreation activity types regarding knowledge of MPAs, the perceived importance of MPAs to their recreation activity, and support for additional regulation and engagement associated with French MPAs. Respondents generally had little or no knowledge about the MPA existence and regulations in locations they accessed for recreation. A low perceived importance of MPAs as a place to recreate and low interest in engagement was also apparent. However, there was significant support for additional MPA regulation. The results demonstrate the complexity of engaging with recreation users in a country where MPAs are a relatively recent concept superimposed on well-established and historically settled human uses. It seems that soft regulation of French MPAs to avoid impinging on recreation access and public liberties is associated with an overall low awareness of MPAs. This situation questions the ability of managers to engage effectively with recreation stakeholders and indicates a need to make French MPA more visible and more understandable for users.
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- Title
- Recreation user knowledge, support and engagement in French MPAs: Are there reverse side-effects of the French soft regulation and management approach?
- Authors/Creators
- A. Cosquer (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne OccidentaleM. Hughes (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityN. Le Corre (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne OccidentaleA. Saint-Pierre (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne OccidentaleI. Peuziat (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne OccidentaleT. Michot (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne OccidentaleN. Bernard (Author/Creator) - Université de Bretagne Occidentale
- Publication Details
- Marine Policy, Vol.104, pp.108-117
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005540485007891
- Copyright
- © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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