Perceptions of threats facing Cabo de Palos - Islas Hormigas MPA and potential solutions

Hogg, Katie; Semitiel-García, María; Noguera-Méndez, Pedro; Gray, Tim; Young, Sarah

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Perceptions of threats facing Cabo de Palos - Islas Hormigas MPA and potential solutions

dc.contributor.author	Hogg, Katie
dc.contributor.author	Semitiel-García, María
dc.contributor.author	Noguera-Méndez, Pedro
dc.contributor.author	Gray, Tim
dc.contributor.author	Young, Sarah
dc.contributor.department	Economía Aplicada
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-14T08:45:49Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-14T08:45:49Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12-29
dc.description	© 2018 Taylor and Francis. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Coastal Management. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2018.1405330	es
dc.description.abstract	Many marine protected areas (MPAs) face a multitude of threats to the ecosystems that they have been established to conserve. This study is based on 111 interviews conducted in 2013–2014 designed to discover the perceptions of stakeholders about the threats, the causes of the threats, and their responses to the threats, to a well-established MPA – Cabo de Palos - Islas Hormigas (CPH-MPA). This MPA was created to safeguard fisheries and the associated artisanal fishers, but over time it has become a tourism “hotspot.” Resilience theory, which incorporates ecological resilience, social resilience, and individual resilience, helps us to analyze stakeholders' responses to threats by categorizing them into passive, adaptive, and transformative responses. We found respondents identified four main threats – over-fishing, excessive scuba diving, pollution, and invasive species; attributed the threats to three main causes – ineffective management, poor environmental stewardship, and climate change; and expressed three kinds of responses – do nothing, adapt, or transform – with a preference for adaptation and (especially) transformation. The lesson of this study is that it shows how, unless drastic action is taken to curb recreational diving activities, the CPH-MPA is in danger of changing from a fishing reserve to a largely unregulated leisure diving venue, which is unlikely to fulfill the requirements of resilience; ecological, social, or individual.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	26	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2018.1405330
dc.identifier.eisbn	Coastal Management, 2018, Vol. 46 (1), pp. 58–74	es
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0892-0753
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1521-0421
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/148358
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis Group	es
dc.relation	The researchers acknowledge with gratitude that this study received funding from the FP7 – People - Marie Curie Actions – Initial Training Network for Monitoring Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (ITN-MMMPA) project, Contract No. 290056.	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08920753.2018.1405330	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Adaptation	es
dc.subject	Marine protected areas	es
dc.subject	Perceptions	es
dc.subject	Resilience	es
dc.subject	Solutions	es
dc.subject	Threats	es
dc.subject	Transformation	es
dc.title	Perceptions of threats facing Cabo de Palos - Islas Hormigas MPA and potential solutions	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es