Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are an important tool for management and conservation play increasingly recognised role in societal human well-being. However, the assessment of MPAs often lacks a simultaneous consideration ecological socio-economic outcomes, this can lead to misconceptions on effectiveness MPAs. In perspective, we present transdisciplinary approach based Delphi method mapping eva...

In the last 20 years, EU has adopted some rather ambitious pieces of legislation with aim to achieve a good environmental status in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Both Water Framework Directive (WFD) Marine Strategy (MSFD) have strong focus on natural environment biological criteria for assessing relevant same time period, much research governance focused interconnectedness social systems ec...