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M. Bavinck et al. (eds.), Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture:
Theory and Applications, MARE Publication Series 7, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0_12,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract MPAs are complex institutional arrangements that should be analyzed from
a governance perspective taking into account the serious challenges posed about their
capacity to cope with the problems of implementation or effectiveness. In this paper
we emphasize the huge and diverse advantages of MPAs initiated by local communities. This trend is increasing lately with the involvement and demands of traditional
users, such as artisanal fi shers, requesting the implementation of marine reserves.
Frequently, they want to ensure the sustainability of fi shing activities and avoid the
pitfalls of rising numbers of other users. In Spain, many of the latest proposals for
Marine Reserves (MRs) were designed for this purpose by local fi shers’ organizations
in partnership with biologists and social scientists, and some of these initiatives
learned precisely from the inception process of La Restinga MPA, the case we are
analyzing in detail here.
Keywords Marine protected areas • Marine reserves • Artisanal fi sheries • Scuba
diving • Cofradías • Governability • Step zero
Introduction
1
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are institutional arrangements that are being promoted
worldwide as solutions to the marine resource crisis and, to a certain extent, as a
consequence of applying the ecosystem perspective to the preservation of sea
Chapter 12
Marine Protected Areas in the Canary
Islands – Improving Their Governability
Raquel De la Cruz Modino and José J. Pascual-Fernández
R. De la Cruz Modino (*) • J. J. Pascual-Fernández
Institute of Social and Political Sciences , University of La Laguna , Tenerife , Spain
e-mail: rmodino@ull.es ; jpascual@ull.es
1 The research summarized in this chapter has been funded with the project Governability analysis
applied to the creation process of Marine Protected Areas (GOBAMP, CSO2009-09802), supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The authors acknowledge the
collaboration of the Network of Marine Reserves of the General Secretary of Fisheries, Ministry
of Agriculture, Food and Environment of Spain.
M. Bavinck et al. (eds.), Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture:
Theory and Applications, MARE Publication Series 7, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0_12,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract MPAs are complex institutional arrangements that should be analyzed from
a governance perspective taking into account the serious challenges posed about their
capacity to cope with the problems of implementation or effectiveness. In this paper
we emphasize the huge and diverse advantages of MPAs initiated by local communities. This trend is increasing lately with the involvement and demands of traditional
users, such as artisanal fi shers, requesting the implementation of marine reserves.
Frequently, they want to ensure the sustainability of fi shing activities and avoid the
pitfalls of rising numbers of other users. In Spain, many of the latest proposals for
Marine Reserves (MRs) were designed for this purpose by local fi shers’ organizations
in partnership with biologists and social scientists, and some of these initiatives
learned precisely from the inception process of La Restinga MPA, the case we are
analyzing in detail here.
Keywords Marine protected areas • Marine reserves • Artisanal fi sheries • Scuba
diving • Cofradías • Governability • Step zero
Introduction
1
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are institutional arrangements that are being promoted
worldwide as solutions to the marine resource crisis and, to a certain extent, as a
consequence of applying the ecosystem perspective to the preservation of sea
Chapter 12
Marine Protected Areas in the Canary
Islands – Improving Their Governability
Raquel De la Cruz Modino and José J. Pascual-Fernández
R. De la Cruz Modino (*) • J. J. Pascual-Fernández
Institute of Social and Political Sciences , University of La Laguna , Tenerife , Spain
e-mail: rmodino@ull.es ; jpascual@ull.es
1 The research summarized in this chapter has been funded with the project Governability analysis
applied to the creation process of Marine Protected Areas (GOBAMP, CSO2009-09802), supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The authors acknowledge the
collaboration of the Network of Marine Reserves of the General Secretary of Fisheries, Ministry
of Agriculture, Food and Environment of Spain.