Marine Conservation: Moving Beyond Malthus

Marine Conservation: Moving Beyond Malthus

A new study has shown that maximum overfishing of coral reefs occurs among countries at intermediate levels of socio-economic development; can managers and policy makers help countries dependent on these ecosystems avoid the resulting poverty traps?

Conservation Biology: Beyond Marine Protected Areas

Socioeconomic and ecological analyses of eleven coral reef conservation efforts make clear that marine protected areas are not the answer, and that in fact support of local communities is far more important than some government mandated 'fishing closure'. Apparently there are marine 'paper parks' just as there are terrestrial 'paper parks'.

Marine conservation on paper.

Moving beyond "noncompliance".

w e all have patients who seem to be “noncom pliant”: the patient with heart failure who misses regular checkups and only comes to the clinic when his prescriptions need renewing, the patient with diabetes who never checks her blood sugars at home, or the patient with hypertension who decides how many blood pressure pills to take each day based on whether she “feels” her blood pressure is high...

Moving Beyond Technical Performance

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