#CoevolutionaryGovernance

Dr Jian Chen passes PhD viva with thesis hailed as ‘tour de force’ in environmental governance UCL Geography congratulates Dr Jian Chen on his successful PhD viva. His research on China’s marine protected areas offers fresh insights into social-ecological resilience and governance.

It's been a pleasure to help guide Jian Chen on his excellent PhD research journey towards a deep understanding of the #CoevolutionaryGovernance of MPAs in China, many congratulations, Jian!

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Frontiers | Incentive diversity is key to the more effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas A target to conserve 30% of oceans by designating marine protected areas (MPAs) has been agreed, yet the effectiveness of existing MPAs is often low, with fe...

.. and focus on empirical case study analyses of how effectiveness and equity have (or have not) been integrated through combined #CoevolutionaryGovernance approaches, taking account of driving forces like poverty & employing a diversity of appropriate incentives
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Interesting modelling analysis! We take an empirical approach to this question through 50 case studies on #MPAGovernance. Building on concepts of structuration& #CoevolutionaryGovernance we find that structural institutions & human agency are co-created & coevolve
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Insights and tools for combining governance approaches for more effective and equitable MPAs | OCTO: Open Communications for the Ocean

This paper is the focus of this webinar kindly hosted by OCTO. This webinar also explains the marine #socialecologicalsystems and #coevolutionarygovernance concepts on which this #MPAGovernance research is based:
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A target to conserve 30% of oceans by designating MPAs has been agreed, yet the effectiveness of existing MPAs is often low, with few weakly implemented restrictions on impacting uses.
Drawing on #coevolutionarygovernance and #socialecologicalsystems concepts we hypothesize that: