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The benefits to people of expanding Marine Protected Areas (2015)

This study focuses on how the economic value of marine ecosystem services to people and communities is expected to change with the expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs). It is recognised, however, that instrumental economic value derived from ecosystem services is only one component of the overall value of the marine environment and that the intrinsic value of nature also provides an argument for the conservation of the marine habitats and biodiversity

27 Aug 2018

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The benefits to people of expanding Marine Protected Areas (2015).pdf