 Governing wide coastal-marine protected territories: A governance analysis of the Baleia Franca Environmental Protection Area in South BrazilHeitor Schulz Macedo, Melissa Vivacqua, Helio Castro Lima Rodrigues and Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger Marine Policy, 2013, vol. 41, issue C, 118-125 Abstract: This is a governance analysis of a large coastal-marine protected area encompassing over 156,000ha and including nine coastal cities in south Brazil – Baleia Franca Environmental Protection Area (BFEPA). While the governance focus of BFEPA has been on participative incentives, progress has been challenging given the enormous size of the area protected and because more bottom–up processes continuously clash with top–down higher-level decisions in the country. It is argued that while current interpretative incentives should be maintained and strengthened, economic and legal incentives should be where more substantial progress has to be made. While major expectation for innovation and change is currently placed in the on-going formulation of a participative Management Plan, entrenched views on development, planning and governing must be challenged. This is not an easy task considering it opposes the prevailing economic development rationale in Brazil. Keywords: Governance diagnostics; Marine protected areas; Marine conservation; Sustainable territorial development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:marpol:v:41:y:2013:i:c:p:118-125 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2013.01.008 Access Statistics for this article Marine Policy is currently edited by Eddie Brown More articles in Marine Policy from Elsevier |
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