HUMANSANDLARGEMPAS.COM

Our goal is to advance understanding of the emergence, form, and function of large MPAs as a governance tool and, ultimately, to inform decision-making and debates regarding large MPAs within case study sites and globally. This website is one way of sharing information about our project... In 2014, a team of social scientists at Colorado State University, Duke University, and University of Guelph initiated an ambitious research and outreach project to generate and share new knowledge about the human dimensions of large MPAs. The project approaches large MPAs as a global movement, with an empirical focus on large MPAs proposed in Bermuda and Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) and designated in Kiribati, Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands & Guam. In some of our case studies, large MPAs have been designated for a number of years; in others, designation seems unlikely in the near future if at all. As our selection of cases illustrates, we believe there is much to..