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Scaling Up Marine Management : The Role of Marine Protected AreasThis study answers the key questions on marine protected areas (MPAs) by assessing country experience with these and other tools along the marine management area continuum that have been adopted to address loss of biodiversity and fisheries and other marine resource degradation, which have eroded traditional use rights and cultural identify. In light of the confusing array of MPA types and other Marine Management Areas, the report creates a typology of tools based on their structure and objectives and commented on their relative effectiveness in achieving objectives, including marine conservation. Finally, the report assesses the best way of scaling up these interventions to achieve results at meaningful scales through replication, networking, or mainstreaming onto other platforms. The main findings of this report were: open access is a principal driver of resource degradation in coastal commons; enforceable governance systems will be required to begin to deal with the formidable problem of regulating access (including types and rates of resource exploitation)-systems that can accommodate different marine coastal and marine environments and that do not undermine local cultural values and practices; while they can be successful in regulating access and use, particularly at the scale of local community-managed reserves, MPAs are fragile governance structures; they require ongoing stakeholder participation in co-management arrangements with authorities and adequate resources to enforce limited entry and use; MPAs are costly to establish and maintain; MPAs cannot survive in isolation; and a broad spectrum of MPA and other emerging coastal and marine management (CMM) frameworks are now in use.
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IMAS Web Mapping Services (WMS)The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) pursues multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work to advance understanding of temperate marine, Southern Ocean, and Antarctic environments. The IMAS Geoserver catalogues IMAS geospatial data, and hosts a number of other data layers from its collaborators.
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GEF and Small Island Developing StatesThe report highlights the GEF's
 work with small island developing states (SIDS) on key
 natural resource issues -climate change, biodiversity,
 international waters, and land degradation. It also
 describes the GEF's strategic priorities for SIDS over
 the next five years, recognizing the interrelatedness of
 SIDS' global environmental problems and their links to
 economic and social development. The Global Environment
 Facility (GEF) hopes this report will contribute to
 discussions at the International Meeting for the 10-Year
 Review of the Barbados Program of Action. The GEF fully
 supports the Barbados Program of Action as a fundamental
 framework for the sustainable development of SIDS and looks
 forward to continuing to work with SIDS on its
 implementation in areas consistent with the GEF's mandate.