This chapter of a forthcoming book entitled RESILIENCE AND THE LAW explores the stressors to marine ecosystems and the role that place-based marine management, including marine protected areas (MPAs), marine reserves or No-Take Areas (NTAs), and marine spatial planning can play in maintaining...

Since at least the 1996 Sustainable Fisheries Act amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, the United States has, at least nominally, been pursuing a policy of sustainable management of fisheries. Nevertheless, concerns about the status of marine fisheries...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Issues in Marine Ecotourism -- 1. Defining Marine Ecotourism: A Delphi Study -- 2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Dilemmas for Marine Ecotourism -- 3. Planning Policy Issues for...