Regardless of where we live, all of us depend upon healthy ocean ecosystems: either as
a source of food or revenue, or as a key shaper and regulator of climate and weather.
This dependency and the need to embrace sustainable development led nations of the
world to agree to a series of high-level political commitments for marine conservation
and marine protected areas. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 5th
World Parks Congress, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the G8 Group of
Nations have all called for the establishment of a global system of marine protected area
(MPA) networks by the year 2012. In line with this commitment are strategies of marine
conservation organizations and some governments to increase the development, use and
effective management of MPAs as a tool for marine conservation across the oceans.Available onlineCall Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-8317-1090-7Physical Description: 129 p.
