Closing the compliance gap in marine protected areas with human behavioural sciences

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dc.contributor.authorBergseth, Brock J.
dc.contributor.authorArias, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorBarnes, Michele L.
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell, Iain
dc.contributor.authorDatta, Amber
dc.contributor.authorGelcich, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorHam, Sam H.
dc.contributor.authorLau, Jacqueline D.
dc.contributor.authorRuano-Chamorro, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorSmallhorn-West, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorWeekers, Damian
dc.contributor.authorZamborain-Mason, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorCinner, Joshua E.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:15:32Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:15:32Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractAdvocates, practitioners and policy-makers continue to use and advocate for marine protected areas (MPAs) to meet global ocean protection targets. Yet many of the worlds MPAs, and especially no-take MPAs, are plagued by poaching and ineffective governance. Using a global dataset on coral reefs as an example, we quantify the potential ecological gains of governing MPAs to increase compliance, which we call the 'compliance gap'. Using ecological simulations based on model posteriors of joint Bayesian hierarchical models, we demonstrate how increased compliance in no-take MPAs could nearly double target fish biomass (91% increases in median fish biomass), and result in a 292% higher likelihood of encountering top predators. Achieving these gains and closing the compliance gap necessitates a substantial shift in approach and practice to go beyond optimizing enforcement, and towards governing for compliance. This will require engaging and integrating a broad suite of actors, principles, and practices across three key domains: (i)) harnessing social influence, (ii) integrating equity principles, and (iii) aligning incentives through market-based instruments. Empowering and shaping communication between actor groups (e.g., between fishers, practitioners, and policy-makers) using theoretically underpinned approaches from the behavioural sciences is one of the most essential, but often underserved aspects of governing MPAs. We therefore close by highlighting how this cross-cutting tool could be further integrated in governance to bolster high levels of compliance in MPAs.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/faf.12749
dc.identifier.eissn1467-2979
dc.identifier.issn1467-2960
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12749
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92266
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000971226700001
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final704
dc.pagina.inicio695
dc.revistaFish and fisheries
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcognitive bias
dc.subjectframing
dc.subjectillegal fishing
dc.subjectpersuasive communication
dc.subjectpoaching
dc.subjectsocial influence
dc.subject.ods14 Life Below Water
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.titleClosing the compliance gap in marine protected areas with human behavioural sciences
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen24
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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