The Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) framework can be used to analyse MPA governance by moving away from conceptual discussions focus on particular approaches leading effectiveness. was applied the Lyme Bay MPA, southwest England, site of a controversial fisheries closure, which has subsequently been proposed as Special Conservation (SAC), well location for an NGO-led project focusing st...

In a recent paper, Binley, Proctor, Pither, Davis, and Bennett (2021) call for greater integration of community science (also often called citizen science) into research on the resilience protected areas. We strongly agree with their focus as means to expand spatial temporal scale data collection, facilitate consistency in long-term environmental monitoring, promote conservation awareness actio...